---
name: "Geoff Shotz"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/geoff-wing-shotz"
fi1m_id: "geoff-wing-shotz"
imdb_id: "nm0795223"
tmdb_id: 1545533
wikidata_id: "Q105801348"
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 68
average_as: "director"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-23T11:43:26.253888+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Geoff Shotz

## Identity

Geoff Shotz

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/geoff-wing-shotz
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** geoff-wing-shotz
- **IMDb ID:** nm0795223
- **TMDB ID:** 1545533
- **Wikidata ID:** Q105801348
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105801348, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0795223/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1545533

Director.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Active:** 1999–2010
- **Also known as:** Geoff Wing Shotz, Geoffrey Shotz,  Geoffrey Wing Shotz, Geofrey Shotz
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 2 directing, 1 crew
- **Frequently works with:** [Brad Turner](https://film.one/person/brad-turner.md), [Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum](https://film.one/person/elizabeth-allen-rosenbaum.md), [Jeffrey Hunt](https://film.one/person/jeffrey-g-hunt.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 68, as director, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 80 (1), 2000s 71 (1), 2010s 65 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q105801348, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0795223/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1545533

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Vampire Diaries*](https://film.one/tv/the-vampire-diaries.md) (71)
- **Apple TV:** [*Hawaii Five-0*](https://film.one/tv/hawaii-five-0.md) (65)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Geoff Shotz, also credited as Geoffrey Wing Shotz, is an American television director. He previously worked as a camera operator, cinematographer and lighting technician on feature films including *Three Kings* (1999) and *Leatherheads* (2008), as well as early episodes of *The Vampire Diaries*.

Shotz has directed episodes of numerous series, including three on *The Vampire Diaries* (2015–2017), one on *Hawaii Five-0* (2020), and others on *The Originals*, *Legacies*, *The Flash*, *Dynasty*, *All American* and *The Equalizer*. He is the principal of Chalkboard Films, Inc. in Atlanta.

*Sources: imdb.com, tvmaze.com, vampirediaries.fandom.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

### Directed (2) — the average rests on these

- *Hawaii Five-0* (2010), Fi1m 65, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/hawaii-five-0.md)
- *The Vampire Diaries* (2009), Fi1m 71, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-vampire-diaries.md)

### Crew (1)

- *Three Kings* (1999), Fi1m 80, Chief Lighting Technician — [page](https://film.one/film/three-kings.md)

## Complete filmography (23)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Hunting Party* (2025), series, Director
- *True Lies* (2023), series, Director
- *Walker Independence* (2022), series, Director
- *Vampire Academy* (2022), series, Director
- *Kung Fu* (2021), series, Director
- *The Equalizer* (2021), series, Director, Co-Executive Producer
- *Roswell, New Mexico* (2019), series, Director
- *Legacies* (2018), series, Director
- *Charmed* (2018), series, Director
- *All American* (2018), series, Director
- *God Friended Me* (2018), series, Director
- *Magnum P.I.* (2018), series, Director
- *MacGyver* (2016), series, Director
- *The Flash* (2014), series, Director
- *The Originals* (2013), series, Director
- *Hawaii Five-0* (2010), series, Director — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/tv/hawaii-five-0.md)
- *The Vampire Diaries* (2009), series, Director — Fi1m 71, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-vampire-diaries.md)
- *Towelhead* (2008), Steadicam Operator, Camera Operator
- *Leatherheads* (2008), Steadicam Operator
- *Getting Played* (2005), Steadicam Operator
- *Target* (2004), Steadicam Operator
- *Three Kings* (1999), as Chief Lighting Technician — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/three-kings.md)
- *Brokedown Palace* (1999), Rigging Gaffer

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