''Shannon Amen'' is a Canadian animated short film, directed by Chris Dainty and released in 2019.Philip Lewis
"World premiere and hometown debut for Ottawa filmmaker Chris Dainty and Shannon Amen at the OIAF 2019"
''The Review'', September 27, 2019. Created as a tribute to his childhood friend and former creative partner Shannon Jamieson who committed suicide in 2006 after being unable to reconcile her

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faith with her lesbian identity, the film blends traditional two-dimensional animation, done in Jamieson's style of painting, with Dainty's own technique of "icemation", which blends stop motion and puppetry to animate human figures and objects carved in

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. The film premiered on September 26, 2019, at the

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. In 2020, the film was selected by the

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to be featured in We Are One: A Global Film Festival. The film received a

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nomination for Best Animated Short at the

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in 2020."Écrans canadiens : Song of Names, The Twentieth Century et Antigone en tête des nominations"

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, February 18, 2020.

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* * 2019 animated short films 2019 films 2019 LGBTQ-related films Canadian animated short films Lesbian-related films Canadian LGBTQ-related short films LGBTQ-related animated short films National Film Board of Canada animated short films 2010s Canadian animated films {{2010s-Canada-film-stub