Shawn Efran
Production
Biography
Shawn Efran is a Peabody- and seven-time Emmy-winning producer/director. He is the founder of Efran Films, a production company focused on creating quality series for television and digital distribution. Efran Films clients include Investigation Discovery, VICE, Bravo, Lifetime, Oxygen, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, thrillist, The Weather Channel, Telemundo, Forbes, Upworthy, Cigna, Chevy, American Express, Netflix, and many more. In 2014, Efran Films' "Women in Prison" series for the New York Times was recognized as one of the best commercials of the year. In 2015, Efran Films won an Emmy, a Polk, interviewed President Obama, and was awarded the Investigative Reporters and Editors highest honor. In 2016, the company won multiple Editor and Publisher awards. In 2017, Efran Films received an Emmy, a Webby, a Murrow, and a Loeb. Before launching Efran Films, Shawn was a producer at CBS's 60 Minutes.
Known For
A real-life look into FBI agents’ high-pressure world with never-before-seen surveillance video, interrogations with hostage takers and terrorists, and personal photos from the agents’ collections.
FBI TRUE
Docuseries told from the point of view of those left behind after a loved one vanishes without a trace.
Never Seen Again
Internet sleuths and professional investigators re-open some of Hollywood's most notorious and controversial celebrity deaths.
(re)solved
The true tale of the love affair between award-winning investigative producer Benita Alexander and world-renowned surgeon Paolo Macchiarini. What started as dream relationship developed into a nightmare filled with lies and deceit.
He Lied About Everything: Inside the Story
INDYCAR: Anything to Win is a documentary leading up to the 109th Indianapolis 500, taking viewers inside the high-stakes world of one of sports' greatest events.
IndyCar: Anything to Win
In "The Real Death Valley," The Weather Channel reveals the little-known story of hundreds of migrants who have died in the sweltering Texas brush over the past five years while attempting to evade a U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint that's not even on the border - in fact it's 70 miles inside the United States. "'The Real Death Valley' is an important story that needs to be told," said Emmy-winning correspondent John Carlos Frey. "We take viewers on the same four-day, 40-mile trek, through tough terrain and sweltering heat that's taken by the migrants themselves. And we ride with law enforcement as they discover migrant corpses, up to four a week during the hot summer months. I think it soon becomes clear why so many people are losing their lives." "The Real Death Valley" was produced by the Emmy- and Peabody Award-winning team of Solly Granatstein and Shawn Efran for Weather Films, the award-winning digital documentary unit of weather.com.
The Real Death Valley: The Untold Story of Mass Graves and Migrant Deaths in South Texas
An astonishing true story of love, betrayal, and deception. When a magical romance with a world-renowned surgeon develops into a nightmare, his fiancé uncovers a path of destruction that leaves dead patients and shattered families in its wake.
He Lied About Everything
The Project profiles the precarious, real-life story of the Puntland Maritime Police Force, a group of Somali pirate hunters. Taking the hijacking of the African waterways and the kidnapping of innocent citizens into their under-trained hands, the PMPF face mutiny, death and a loss of corporate funding in their dangerous quest to free the Middle East shipping industry from terror. The mercenaries’ epic battle makes for an intense, gripping and disarming ride.