Biography

Ms. Waran has been a line producer and producer for numerous feature films and documentaries over the last fifteen years and in January of 2015 helped to launch Cinterra Entertainment as a Manager.

Her producing credits include the Oscar-nominated Little Surprises directed by Jeff Goldblum for Showtime, and Slamdance Grand Jury nominee Dill Scallion written and directed by Jordan Brady. Other documentary credits include John the Road featuring John Lehr as well as William Gazecki's Crop Circles: Quest for Truth. Most recently Ms. Waran has produced numerous live concert event-DVDs both in the U.S. and overseas.Ms. Waran's professional career began in film sales and marketing in London, after which she accepted a position in Los Angeles as Director of Development and Creative Affairs for Edward R. Pressman Productions where she worked on feature film projects including Conan the Barbarian and Pirates of Penzance. Ms. Waran then served as Production Coordinator on the Sam Raimi film Crimewave, developed and produced by Pressman. Infected by the precision and excitement of production, she has never looked back. Leaving her development position, she enlisted as a production coordinator and assistant to film director Roger Donaldson, learning the ropes by working on films including No Way Out, White Sands and Cadillac Man.

- IMDb mini biography by: Cinterra Pictures

After a ten year career in film sales in marketing in London, Shalini Waran moved to Los Angeles in 1982 as Director of Development and Creative Affairs for Edward R. Pressman Productions, working on feature film projects including Conan the Barbarian and Pirates of Penzance.

Thirsting after on-set production experience, she took time away from the office to production coordinate the Sam Raimi film Crimewave, developed and produced by Pressman. Infected by the precision and excitement of production, she has never looked back. Leaving her development position, she enlisted as a production coordinator and assistant to film director Roger Donaldson, learning the ropes by working on films such as Marie, No Way Out, White Sands and Cadillac Man. For the last 20 years, Ms. Waran has been a Line Producer and Producer as such her credits include the Oscar Nominated Little Surprises for Showtime, directed by Jeff Goldblum and Dill Scallion, written and directed by Jordan Brady. She received her first producer credit on a documentary entitled John the Road, featuring John Lehr, one of the stars of the NBC Television Sitcom Jesse, and produced an indie film entitled Home - The Horror Story with Richard Weaver. From Spring 2001 to Fall 2003 she marketed William Gazecki's latest feature documentary Crop Circles: Quest for Truth, and worked with him to raise financing for their upcoming slate of documentaries. Most recently Ms. Waran has produced DVDs of live concert events both in the U.S. and overseas.

Over the years she has consulted on line production for independent producers, budgeting and scheduling numerous films in search of financing. She has also found the time to write; her first published short story appeared in an anthology that hit the bookstores in early February 1999.

Her early years were spent on film sets and television studios where she worked, between studies, for the casting agency started by her Grandmother in 1957 at the urging of George Cukor. She spent her youth on the sets of major feature films such as Cleopatra and Lord Jim, but her friends say that her real claim to fame is that she appeared in the Beatles film A Hard Day's Night as a screaming teeny-bopper!

- IMDb mini biography by: Cinterra Pictures