Harlan Wungnema Shield

I was born in the District.

Washington, D.C. to be more specific. I also lived in Alexandria, VA, and Great Falls, Montana. All of that moving gave me a well rounded understanding and feel to different communities and life styles that make up this country. In school I did some plays, but I mainly stuck to sports.

 

After high school I would enlist in to the United States Marine Corps and be trained as a Military Police officer. I got sent to Japan (twice), meeting my future wife on my second tour. Being around her and her acting career gave me understanding to the acting world and film industry I never knew.

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In 2016 I would be hired to work at Warner Bros. in Burbank, California as a Set Watch officer. Being there, on the lot, in the sound stages, gave me even more of an understanding to that world. And it is there that I would be bitten by the creative bug. I would be exposed to numerous types of productions, which would help me become familiar with the work that goes into film and television. I began to have a dream to create.

During the COVID pandemic, I would be posted in vacant office buildings with a lot of time on my hands. My mind would fill that time with scenarios and stories, which I would write down and mold into my first screenplay. I would go on to write a few more. One of which I would direct.

 

Now, Diana and I have created together GBF. A vision to create and tell stories that are exciting and important to us. We want to help bring to the forefront, stories that we feel should be shared with the world, stories that are under represented in mainstream media, and stories that just need opportunities to grow.​

That is what I feel GBF is all about.