Background
Feste was born and raised in Palos Verdes, Los Angeles, California. Feste attended University of California, Los Los Angeles When her parents divorced, she spent summers at her father"s in Texas.
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Shana Feste
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She earned a master"s degree in Creative Writing and Screenwriting at the University of Texas at Austin and then studied Producing at the American Film Institute, from where she graduated in 2003.
Career
She has directed and written The Greatest, Country Strong, and Endless Love, and also has writing credits for You"re Not You. She has a sister. She worked as a nanny, waited tables and tutored to pay for her tuition. Following her graduation, she worked as an assistant at the Creative Artists Agency.
Feste"s directorial debut was The Greatest, which was screened at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival in the United States dramatic competition section.
The film is based on Feste"s father who lost a son before she was born. In 2009, she wrote the script for music drama Country Strong, which she directed and was released in 2011.
The film focused on recovering alcoholic country singer Kellie Canter played by Gwyneth Paltrow. Also in 2009, Feste was hired to write a screenplay based on the novel You"re Not You by Michelle Wildgen.
Filming took place in December 2012.
The film should be released sometime in 2013. In May 2011, Feste was announced to direct an adaptation of Carolyn Turgeon"s novel Mermaid: A Twist on the Classic Tale. The project is still in development.
She directed the romance film Endless Love, a remake of the 1981 film.
The film was released in February 2014.
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