Shanhuan Manton is a genderqueer Chinese-American filmmaker focused on composting extractive methods of cinematic storytelling into regenerative rituals and making the possibilities of speculative worlds real through collective storytelling. They are currently developing several projects centering the more-than-human world, and the collective crafting of contemporary mythologies for navigating the convergent crises of our time.
White Gaze, which received the Blumhouse Patrons Circle grant, is a micro-budget social drama/horror with tinges of magical realism and shot on location in the area impacted with talent born and More