Welcome to the wonderful world of writings, videos, music, art and other weirdness
made by
Justin Shelton.
Writing
Justin Shelton is a Los Angeles-based writer. He and Jarelle Dampier wrote and sold a pitch to Sony Pictures Animation for an adult animated horror movie “Inheritance”.
Shelton co-wrote the screenplay for the animated short film ‘Storks: A Guide to Your New Baby’ released by Warner Bros. He also wrote the treatment for the Warner Bros.’ Virtual Reality experience based on the feature film ‘Smallfoot’.
His screenplay ‘I.R.L. In Real Life’ was shortlisted for honors including: quarterfinalist for the Academy Nicholl Fellowship, finalist for the Creative World Awards, the Atlanta Film Festival and the Nashville Film Festival and semi-finalist for the Story Pros Awards and ScreenCraft Sci-Fi & Fantasy Screenplay Contest, amongst others.
The screenplay he co-wrote with Brian T. Monk “Bad Vibes” was quarterfinalist for the PAGE International Screenwriting Awards, Screamfest, and the Creative World Awards; amongst other placements.;
His previous screenplay “Worst Date Ever” was shortlisted for honors including quarterfinalist for the ScreenCraft Comedy Screenplay Contest and the Page International Screenwriting Awards.
Shelton also enjoys writing novels, copy, marketing, pitches, social media, blogs, articles, poetry, song lyrics, short stories, kid's books, self help novels and has been known to dabble in job applications, emails to loved ones, best man's speeches and any other type of writing that can help a friend get out of jury duty.
Justin Shelton is managed by Matt Prater at Citizen Skull Management.
I.R.L.: In Real Life- Screenplay
Andy designs virtual adventures on a tech-obsessed future Earth, but when his estranged sister is kidnapped, he must travel across the galaxy and team up with Natasha, a rogue with a heart of gold, to battle inter-planetary gangsters, double crossing criminals, and even killer cuddly bears to save his family and uncover a lost alien civilization, all while trying to not get killed ‘In Real Life’.
Bad vibes feature- film screenplay
A group of old college buddies, trying to save their aging friendship, take a psychedelic trip to the energy vortex capital of America but end up in a fight for their lives after they unwittingly release a dark abomination during a yoga healing ritual.
Storks: A Guide to Your New Baby- Short Scipt
A short script to the mini movie for the release of the Warner Bros. Film Storks on Blu Ray.
Worst Date Ever- Feature Script
Terrence and Carrie should have never went on this blind date. Now, the entire multi-verse is collapsing, and it's all their fault.
Strange Love- Music Video Script
A love triangle. A duel. A shocking reveal. This one's got it all, folks.
Smallfoot Virtual Reality Treatment
An in-depth pitch of visual ideas, story elements, and games that immerse you into the world of the Yeti and their Smallfoot. Prepared for Warner Bros. for their new animated feature film 'Smallfoot'.
Videos
Justin Shelton co-wrote and production managed the short film 'Storks- A Guide to Your New Baby' for Warner Bros. He wrote and directed some shorts that played at film festivals across the US. His short 'The Do Over' was featured on Yahoo!'s front page and was seen 800,000 times in two days.
STORKS- A Guide to your new baby
Pigeon Toady wants to help you raise your child. Bad idea.
MOMENTARY
One moment can come and go but stay with you a life time.
How to Wash a Dog
Always wanted to know how to wash a dog? Probably not. But watch this video anyway!
DCDJ
A promotion video for the DJ company.
the Do Over
Do you ever wish you could just have a 'Do Over'? Tony does.
Never by Know Ghost
Music video for "Never" by Know Ghost. Part one of the triptych based on the story "Hansel and Gretel".
Music
Justin Shelton really loves music. He's djayed for over twenty years under his DJ name ‘Ten Foot Rabbit’.
Shelton also really enjoys making beats and songs. Sometimes they come out like hip hop, sometimes they come out like indy pop Prince messing around with Ableton.
Shelton created the main score and music motif for the short film 'A Spider Within- A SpiderVerse Story'.
Art
Justin Shelton likes to paint and make stuff. He's a bit abstract but loves color.
biography
Justin Danger Ryan Smith Shelton was born long ago in a far off land called Michigan. He didn't live there long. When his parents broke up, he moved with his mom to Phoenix, AZ.
In high school, Shelton was a bit of a class clown. He was voted Most Outgoing, mainly for making a fool of himself at school assemblies and on the school news. He directed and acted in several school plays. He got the lead in two musicals even though he can't carry a tune. He wrote for the school newspaper and was editor of the sports section. He also wrote hard hitting exposes like 'Why Radio Sucks'.
During this time, Shelton was a ball boy for the Phoenix Suns. This was back when the Suns were actually good.
Shelton went to Arizona State University. It was fun there. He learned a lot at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and the Hugh Downs School of Communication.
After his first degree, Justin went to Full Sail University in Orlando, FL. There he studied film and learned the tricks of the movie trade. He made his first real short film during this time, 'Jungle', about race and the Vietnam War. Heavy stuff, man.
After Full Sail, Shelton moved to Los Angeles. He quickly landed a job working on 'Jim Rome is Burning' for ESPN. He got to shoot his own segments for the show, edit and produce them. He also worked on Survivor for two seasons, even though he still has never seen a full episode of the show.
Justin djayed at many cool bars, clubs and events in LA. He was really lucky to have been at so many neat places and to rock so many crowds.
Shelton landed his dream job of being PA on 'Where the Wild Things Are' directed by Spike Jonze. Spike is awesome and really nice. This granted him access to Warner Bros. where he made friends with lots of people. It was during this time he met the love of his life, Anna, when she was signing up people for Greenpeace outside of a Trader Joe's. He would eventually marry Anna and have lots of fun adventures with her.
Justin entered the Management Trainee Program at Warner Bros. and he worked for the Worldwide President of Physical Production. During this time, he shot a couple of other shorts, including 'Tag' which played at a couple of film festivals.
After the trainee program, Shelton worked in Visual Effects for the studio, starting as assistant and working his way up to production supervisor. During this time, he met lots of very big named stars and directors, many of which he would name drop to random passing people. During this time, he wrote a ton of screenplays that made it to the semi finals of screen writing festivals. His short 'The Do Over' was picked up by Yahoo! and seen 800,000 times in two days on their site. He also played some film festivals with his short 'Momentary'.
Justin moved over to animation, where he worked on the film 'Storks'. He made friends with lots of people there too. He even got to have his voice in the movie.
Shelton wrote a short of the Blu Ray release of Storks. He also wrote a treatment for the virtual reality release of the animated film Smallfoot.
Justin and Anna had a little baby boy named Thomas. He's awesome. They tried their hands at living in Ann Arbor, MI for a year. Shelton DJed professionally on some really cool gigs and helped make and produce some commercials. During this time, he worked his butt off writing his best script to date ‘I.R.L. In Real Life’.
Shelton missed LA too much. Home is where the heart is. He packed up his family and moved everything back across the country in pursuit of the Manifest Destiny dream of California and the land of Hollywood.
Shelton worked at Sony Pictures Animation in development and on the feature film “Spider-Man: Across the Spiderverse”. He was Production Manager at Netflix on a feature film that was canceled.
Shelton and his writing partner sold a pitch and wrote drafts for an animated horror film “Inheritance” to Sony Pictures Animation.
