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name: "Shana Hagan"
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roles: ["Cinematographer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 82
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T05:23:43.225948+00:00"
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# Shana Hagan

Cinematographer.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Active:** 1991–2018
- **Also known as:** Shana Hagan, ASC
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 84 (1), 2010s 80 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60661542, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0353248/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/543382

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse*](https://film.one/film/hearts-of-darkness-a-filmmakers-apocalypse.md) (84)

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## Biography

Shana Hagan is a cinematographer and member of the American Society of Cinematographers. She graduated from Loyola Marymount University in 1989 and began her career in post-production as an assistant editor on the documentary *Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse* (1991). She was subsequently given camera operator duties on additional interviews for the film, marking her first credited work behind the camera.

Hagan has shot numerous documentaries, including the Academy Award-winning short *Breathing Lessons* (1996) and Sundance selections such as *Shakespeare Behind Bars*, *Generation Wealth* (2018) and *This Film Is Not Yet Rated* (2006). Her feature documentary credits include additional photography on *Won't You Be My Neighbor?* (2018) and *Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain* (2021), as well as *The Kingmaker* (2019) and *63 Up* (2019).

In television, she has worked on series including four seasons of *Parks and Recreation*, the Netflix reboot of *Arrested Development*, *Somebody Somewhere* and *Welcome to Flatch*. She was the first woman to shoot on the reality series *Survivor* and received an Emmy nomination for her work on *Survivor: China*; she later won an Emmy for *Little Richard: I Am Everything* (2023).

*Sources: imdb.com, theasc.com, televisionacademy.com, documentary.org, finearts.utah.edu.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Won't You Be My Neighbor?* (2018), Fi1m 80, Additional Photography — [page](https://film.one/film/wont-you-be-my-neighbor.md)
- *Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse* (1991), Fi1m 84, Director of Photography, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/film/hearts-of-darkness-a-filmmakers-apocalypse.md)

## Also known for

- *This Film Is Not Yet Rated* (2006), Director of Photography
- *Generation Wealth* (2018), Director of Photography
- *Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain* (2021), Additional Director of Photography

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