A Seattle-based freelancer, Jeff Shannon has been writing about film and filmmakers since 1985, for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer (1985-92) and The Seattle Times (1992-present). Prior to freelancing, Jeff studied film history, theory and criticism at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, with further film studies at the University of Washington. He was the assistant editor of Microsoft’s “Cinemania” CD-ROM and website (1992-98), where he worked with rogerebert.com editor Jim Emerson, and was an original member of the DVD & Video staff at Amazon.com (1998-2001). Disabled by a spinal cord injury since 1979 (C-5/6 quadriplegia), he occasionally contributes disability-related articles to New Mobility magazine (newmobility.com), and served two three-year terms (2006-11) on the Washington State Governor’s Committee on Disability Issues and Employment.
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