Shana L. Darabie is a Brooklyn based filmmaker, photographer and designer that grew up all over the Eastern, Southern and Midwestern United States, Northern Europe and the West Indies. She studied Fashion Design at the Fashion Institute of Technology and Screenwriting and Religious Studies at Brooklyn College. Currently, Shana works in Development at the Department of Motion Pictures.

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Canary Trap (short, thriller) Canary delivers packages for secret organization HQ. After accepting her new mission, Canary is connected with a dispatcher who pushes her boundaries. Forced to go against HQ's directives, Canary finds herself questioning everything and everyone around her.

  • Winner, PANO Network Production Microgrant 2023

  • Honorable Mention, SoCal Film Awards 2024

  • Official Selection, New York Shorts International Film Festival 2024

  • Official Selection, Film N’ Dem Short Festival 2024

  • Official Selection, Kalakari Film Fest 2025

Clones (pilot, sci-fi) After her ex-husband replaces her with a clone, Cleo is determined to regain the wealthy comforts of her former life at any cost.

  • Semifinalist, Almanack Screenwriters Episodic Lab 2022

  • Finalist, Circle of Confusion Writer Discovery Fellowship 2023

Devotion (feature, horror) An overextended popular girl finds her true self after joining a secretive cult leading to murderous consequences that will change her life forever.

Facsimile (feature, sci-fi/horror) A woman obsessed with following the rules finds herself in a terrifying situation where the rules no longer apply after she’s assigned to work on a frozen planet populated by colonists hiding their own dreadful secret.

  • Winner, Devery Freeman Memorial Award in Screenwriting 2021

  • Semifinalist, Table Read My Screenplay Spring 2022

Helen of Troy (pilot, crime) Helen will rule Troy even if she must burn the whole world down to the ground.

  • Finalist, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards 2021

Signing Off (short, sci-fi/horror) The lone survivor of a remote science team slowly loses her grip on reality as she records her daily log.

  • Semifinalist, PANO Network Development Microgrant 2024

  • Semifinalist, Filmmatic Sci-Fi/Fantasy Awards Season 2, 2024

  • Quarterfinalist, Filmmatic - Pitch Now Screenplay Competition Season 7, 2025

Supervillainous (feature, action) After discovering her favorite superheroine and bully are the same person, a powerless teen takes it upon herself to set things right at any cost.

  • Finalist, WGAe and FilmNation NY Screenwriting Fellowship 2023

  • Semifinalist, The Writers Lab 2024

  • Semifinalist, Almanack Screenwriters October Colony 2024

The Trail (short, thriller) A couple find themselves on an unescapable trail that will test the strength of their relationship.

  • Second Rounder, Austin Film Festival 2016

  • Official Selection, AAWIC Harlem Week Special Screening Program 2018

  • Official Selection, St. Francis College Women’s Film Festival 2019

  • Official Selection, AAWIC Online Media Series 2020

  • Official Selection, MOM Film Festival 2023

  • Official Selection, Kalakari Film Fest 2025

What Happened to Candice (short, horror/fantasy) A woman gets an unexpected surprise from her answering machine.

Wolf & Root (pilot, horror/fantasy) Veteran cop and werewolf, Detective Snow, partners with witch turned rookie cop Officer Rooter to solve the unsolvable. Along with human partner, Detective Fontan, they find themselves embroiled in a conspiracy bigger than they could ever imagine with far-reaching consequences.

  • Finalist, Almanack Screenwriters Episodic Lab 2020