About
PADLIN CREATIVE principal, Shannon Malone-deBenedictis, is a two-time Emmy Award-winning storyteller and leading television development and production figure.
She has collaborated with the BBC, James Cameron, Sigourney Weaver, Sela Ward, James Spader, Dennis Quaid, and the Jackson Fork Ranch. She won two Emmy Awards at Red Rock Films: Outstanding Documentary Series for Disney+’s Secrets of the Whales and Outstanding Nature & Adventure Series for Netflix’s Penguin Town.
She has developed and produced programs in several genres, from science and natural history to embedded reality and children’s programming. With an extensive career as an editor, producer, and in-house development executive, she excels in taking a “10,000-foot” approach to a project — with a passion for problem-solving and an ease in grasping both creative and business interests. This same passion applies to ecosystems, native cultures and our planet.