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Karl Shefelman

Known for Art

Karl's debut feature film, LOOKING FOR THE JACKALOPE, won the Jury Award for Best Comedy Feature and the Audience Award for Best U.S. Feature at the 2017 Austin Revolution Film Festival. Distributed by Indie Rights Movies, it is now available on Amazon Prime and other online platforms. Karl's short film, MAN ON THE TOWER, won a Remy Award for Best Short Film at the 2021 Worldfest Houston Film Festival. It tells the story of some young kids witnessing the 1966 U.T. tower sniper shooting from their back yard in Austin, Texas. Karl's film, BILL’S SEAT, won Best Short Film at the St. Louis Int'l Film Festival, 2003. His half-hour period drama, ELYSIAN FIELDS, also won numerous festival awards, including a Gold Prize at the World Festival/Houston. The film was sold to the BBC-2. In addition, Karl has worked for years as a storyboard and conceptual artist for numerous A-list directors including Ron Howard, Francis Ford Coppola, Ridley Scott, and Martin Scorsese.

Birthplace

Austin, Texas, USA

Filmography

20 films

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Looking for the Jackalope

2016 · 1h 42m

country: United States

A disenchanted writer takes an ill-fated journey from New York to his college reunion in Ohio in an attempt to reunite with his old college girlfriend.

Bill's Seat

2002 · 15m

country: United States

In the tradition of Roald Dahl or O. Henry, this strange little psychological thriller begins when a New Yorker stops in a small Pennsylvania town with a flat tire only trapped in the local bar where he is accused of being a hit and run driver who killed one of their patrons. As the locals interrogate and threaten our protagonist we are lead through a series of psychological twists and turns, leading to a very surprise ending.