Shawn Lawrence Otto

Shawn Lawrence Otto is a Minnesota-native filmmaker, political strategist, speaker, and writer, and screenwriter and co-producer of the movie "House of Sand and Fog".

He lives on a hobby farm near Marine on St. Croix with his wife, Rebecca Otto, the current Minnesota State Auditor. His first screenplay was "Shining White", that won the Heathcote Award, the McKnight Fellowship and the Barry Morrow Fellowship. To be released in 2009, he is the writer and director of the movie "Dreams of a Dying Heart".

During the Hollywood writers' strike in 2007 and 2008, Otto helped organize and became the CEO of Science Debate 2008, a national campaign to raise the profile of science and technology issues in the American political dialogue, by urging presidential candidates to debate science policy issues like abortion, health care, and American economic competitiveness. The campaign is co-sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Council on Competitiveness, PBS Nova, and "NOW on PBS", and its signers include over 170 major American universities and other leading organizations, nearly 100 university presidents, and dozens of Nobel laureates, all told [sic] representing over 125 million Americans of all parties.

References

*
*