INDEPENDENT FILM & TELEVISION
Psychological thrillers. Untold histories.
A company built around a distinct point of view.
01 / THE COMPANY
SWOON ENTERTAINMENT LLC
Faith and Fear Cannot Exist in the Same Room.
Swoon Entertainment develops film and television with a focus on psychological thrillers, horror, and untold stories of Black history.
Founded by actor and producer Vicellous Shannon, Swoon brings his experience in film and television to a growing slate of original projects. The company’s work connects contained genre storytelling with an interest in identity, memory, accountability, and the people history has overlooked.
Contained stories driven by character, pressure, and suspense.
Black experiences and contributions told through the people who lived them.
02 / FILM & TV SLATE
IN DEVELOPMENTThe projects below are in development. Timber Falls is currently being packaged and financed.
Written by Adam Rockoff
Directed by Kristian Gabriel
Produced by Vicellous Shannon
Producer Lesa Wolfe Crowell
A son seeking answers about his father in a psychiatric ward encounters a town shaped by compliance, secrecy, and institutional control.
Written by Vicellous Shannon
Produced by Vicellous Shannon
A declaration of Black pride triggers a coordinated deepfake attack. A veteran actor and filmmaker fights to protect his family, his film, and his name.
Written by Vicellous Shannon
Produced by Vicellous Shannon
At his official portrait unveiling, a former governor becomes trapped inside a capitol where images consume people and rewrite identities, forcing him to confront a buried racial atrocity and his own abuses of power.
Written by Vicellous Shannon
Produced by Vicellous Shannon
Shootings lead a campus safety director back to a buried sexual-assault case. As he shelters surviving witnesses, he learns someone is using the evidence to silence them.
Written by Vicellous Shannon
Produced by Vicellous Shannon
During one night at a remote mountain lodge, a former crime-scene photographer sees fragments of events before they happen and must uncover a murder he helped conceal.
Written by Vicellous Shannon
Produced by Vicellous Shannon
A former hostage negotiator enters an experimental procedure to recover eleven minutes surrounding his wife’s murder, then uncovers repeated memory erasures and a program manufacturing false witnesses.
Produced by Vicellous Shannon
Walter Morris and America’s first Black paratroopers fight segregation, earn their wings, and face a secret wartime assignment on American soil.
Written by Kristian Gabriel
Story by Vicellous Shannon, Kristian Gabriel and Toi Juan Shannon
Produced by Vicellous Shannon
A skeptical detective and a phobia specialist investigate deaths shaped by victims’ deepest fears, uncovering an ancient collective entity feeding on human terror.
Written by Vicellous Shannon
Produced by Vicellous Shannon
A photograph conservator uncovers her husband’s plan to stage her death. Unexplained knocking leads her toward the truth about his first wife’s murder.
Written by Vicellous Shannon
Produced by Vicellous Shannon
Trapped in a closed care center with staff implicated in a patient’s death, a crisis consultant confronts a supernatural presence exposing their choices and his own role in helping everyone deny responsibility.
03 / THE FOUNDER
ACTOR & PRODUCERVicellous Shannon is an actor, producer, and founder of Swoon Entertainment, known for his breakout performance as Lesra Martin in The Hurricane alongside Denzel Washington.
His film work includes D2: The Mighty Ducks, in which he played James, and Annapolis opposite James Franco, Hart’s War alongside Bruce Willis and Colin Farrell, and Freedom Song with Danny Glover, in which he portrayed Owen Walker. He later played Agent Porter alongside Nicolas Cage in The Humanity Bureau and appeared in Distorted with Christina Ricci and John Cusack, and Come Out Fighting with Dolph Lundgren, Kellan Lutz, Michael Jai White, and Tyrese Gibson.
On television, Shannon portrayed Keith Palmer, the son of Dennis Haysbert’s David Palmer, on FOX’s 24. His credits include recurring roles on CSI and JAG, as well as guest appearances on Sons of Anarchy, House, Cold Case, Without a Trace, CSI: Miami, and Judging Amy.
Shannon’s producing experience includes raising capital for film production and contributing to screenplay development and polishing. He helped develop and polish the screenplays for The Humanity Bureau and Distorted, and helped raise funding for both films. Both films were produced in association with Minds Eye Entertainment.
He also appeared in The Humanity Bureau alongside Nicolas Cage and in Distorted alongside Christina Ricci and John Cusack. This experience across development, financing, and performance informs his work as a producer at Swoon Entertainment.
Born in Memphis and raised in Orange County, Shannon trained at The Actors Workshop in Laguna Hills. Through Swoon Entertainment, he brings his experience in film and television to the development and production of original projects, including psychological thrillers and stories of Black history. He serves as a producer and actor on Timber Falls.
Shannon is the proud father of two daughters.
VICELLOUS SHANNON / ACTING REEL
This reel offers a preview of Vicellous Shannon’s work across film and television, part of a career spanning more than three decades.
His career highlights include portraying Lesra Martin in The Hurricane alongside Denzel Washington, Owen Walker in Freedom Song with Danny Glover, and Keith Palmer on 24, alongside film roles in Hart’s War and Annapolis. His experience as an actor and producer informs the stories he brings to Swoon Entertainment.
SELECTED ACTING CREDITS / VICELLOUS SHANNON
Individual acting credits. View complete acting credits on IMDb
04 / TELEVISION CREDITS
VICELLOUS SHANNON44television titles
Series, television films & pilots
Individual acting credits. Title count includes television films and pilots, with M.A.N.T.I.S. listed separately as a series and a television film. View IMDbPro profile · View IMDb profile
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