Rate My Professor Shane Eason

Shane Eason serves as Director of the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies, Associate Professor, and Multimedia Production Coordinator in the Communications faculty at Florida Atlantic University. A Canadian-born film and video artist, curator, photographer, and educator, he earned a BFA in Film from the University of Regina and an MFA in Studio Art, Cinema from Concordia University. Eason specializes in experimental and documentary film, with his works—conscience studies in abstraction, memory, and identity—screened and exhibited internationally at film festivals and art galleries. His feature documentary PAPA chronicles the annual Ernest "Papa" Hemingway Look-alike Contest in Key West, Florida, earning nominations for Best Feature Documentary at festivals such as The Digital Ticket, Tampa Bay Underground Film Festival, YES Film Festival, and Palm Beach International Film Festival, as well as wins for Best Story and Best Editing at the Madrid International Film Festival.

Eason teaches courses including DIG 3253C Digital Audio Recording and Editing, RTV 3260 Video Production, RTV 3229 Experimental Video Production, RTV 3339 Documentary Video Production, and FIL 4613 Exhibition Practices in Film, Video, and New Media. Recent projects encompass experimental shorts He Sees Dead People, Mangroves, The ‘Cos, Ascend + Descend, and KFLL | Squawk | 0.9HZ, with ongoing developments like Rockets Red Glare, Sin Bin experimental video wall, and Works of the Flesh: Fourth Study. He directs and curates the 1:1 Super 8 Cinema Soirée and Flamingo Film Festival. Eason received the South Florida Cultural Consortium Visual and Media Artists Award of $15,000 for his SIN BIN series on hockey enforcers, violence, and masculinity, alongside grants from the National Film Board of Canada, Canada Council for the Arts, Main Film, Interbay Cinema Society, SaskFilm, and Saskatchewan Filmpool Cooperative, plus FAU internal awards for Rockets’ Red Glare. With over two decades of international film exhibitions, Eason significantly impacts film education and production through his artistic practice and curatorial efforts.