Shane Cole moved to Los Angeles from Jamestown NY in Nov. 1999. He has directed numerous micro-budget horror-thrillers through his company Masked Films - all of which have received general world-wide distribution. He has also directed several music video's and promo trailers for various projects. He learned filmmaking the old-fashioned way, from the ground up, starting out working for free on a few low-budget movies. Soon, however, he was being paid for his production work at TV commercials producer Acme Film Works and later Hyperion Pictures, where he worked on films and TV projects for Disney, HBO, Warner Bros., and many others.

In 2016 Shane moved to the beautiful Finger Lakes area of NY where he has helped local crews from Buffalo to Rochester on various film, video and photograhy projects.