Writer/Director Lynn Shelton, 1965 – 2020

Lynn Shelton, who wrote and directed features including Hump Day, Your Sister’s Sister and Laggies, and who directed numerous television episodes, died yesterday in Los Angeles of a previously undiagnosed blood disorder.

She was 54.

Long associated with the Seattle independent film scene, Shelton began feature filmmaking in her mid-30s, after working in a variety of other artistic mediums.

She told Filmmaker in 2012, “As far back as I can remember I always knew I wanted to be an artist.

Finding myself smitten with nearly every creative medium in existence probably made the fact that I ended up deeply exploring […]

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