Shannon Walsh is a Canadian filmmaker, writer and scholar. She has directed the feature documentaries ''

The Gig Is Up ''The Gig Is Up'' is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Shannon Walsh and released in 2021. The film explores the impact of the contemporary gig economy on society. The film premiered on April 23, 2021, at the Copenhagen International Docu ...

'', ''H2Oil'' ,''À St-Henri, le 26 août'', ''Jeppe on a Friday'' and ''Illusions of Control''. She has also directed music videos for the Montreal based artist

Little Scream Little Scream is the stage name of American-born, Montreal-based singer, songwriter, multi-instrumental musician and artist Laurel Sprengelmeyer. Her debut album ''The Golden Record'' was released on Outside Music in Canada and Secretly Canadian ...

. Walsh, who was born in

London, Ontario London (pronounced ) is a city in southwestern Ontario, Canada, along the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor. The city had a population of 422,324 according to the 2021 Canadian census. London is at the confluence of the Thames River, approximat ...

, is also an academic, and teaches film production at the

University of British Columbia The University of British Columbia (UBC) is a public university, public research university with campuses near Vancouver and in Kelowna, British Columbia. Established in 1908, it is British Columbia's oldest university. The university ranks a ...

in the Department of Theatre and Film. She is the author of ''The Documentary Filmmaker's Intuition: Creating Ethical and Impactful Non-fiction Films''. She is also the co-editor of the books ''Ties that Bind: Race and the Politics of Friendship in South Africa'', and ''In My Life: Stories from activists in South Africa 2002-2022''. She was awarded a

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

in 2020 and awarded a

Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts The Governor General's Awards in Visual and Media Arts are annual awards for achievements in visual and media arts in Canada. Up to eight awards are presented annually with the prize amount is $25,000 Created in 2000 by then Governor General Ad ...

in 2023.

Filmography

Feature films

*2009: '' H2Oil'' (feature documentary) *2011: '' A St-Henri le 26 Aout'' (feature documentary) *2013: ''

Jeppe on a Friday Jeppe may refer to several articles. Places * Jeppe, Johannesburg, South Africa, named after Julius Jeppe; see: ** Jeppestown, Gauteng ** Jeppestown South, Gauteng ** Jeppe High School for Girls ** Jeppe High School for Boys People *Jep ...

'' (feature documentary) made with

Arya Lalloo Aryan or Arya (, Indo-Iranian *''arya'') is a term originally used as an ethnocultural self-designation by Indo-Iranians in ancient times, in contrast to the nearby outsiders known as 'non-Aryan' (*''an-arya''). In Ancient India, the ter ...

*2019: '' Illusions of Control'' (feature documentary) *2021: ''

'' (feature documentary)

Short films

*2002: ''Revisit'' (experimental fiction) directed with

Rawi Hage Rawi Hage (Arabic: راوي الحاج, romanized: Rāwī Ḥāj; born 1964) is a Lebanese-Canadian journalist, novelist, and photographer based in Canada. Writing Hage has published journalism and fiction in Canadian and American magazines, and ...

*2003: ''Sayeh'' (medium-length documentary) directed with

Kaveh Nabatian Kaveh Nabatian is an Iranian- Canadian musician and film director, known as a trumpeter and keyboardist with the Juno Award winning orchestral post-rock band Bell Orchestre. Career As a filmmaker Nabatian is noted for his 2010 short film '' Vapo ...

and Nicolas Rutigliano *2003: ''Fire & Hope'' (documentary) *2004: ''Close-Up'' (experimental) *2006: ''Inkani'' (documentary) with Heinrich Bohmke *2007: ''The Space In Between'' (short fiction) starring

Rich Terfry Richard Terfry (born March 4, 1972), better known by his stage name Buck 65, is a Canadian alternative hip hop artist. Underpinned by an extensive background in abstract hip hop, his more recent music has extensively incorporated blues, country, ...

and Elizabeth Powell *2012: ''Niger Delta Remix: Last Rights Niger Delta (video installation for the Johannesburg Workshop on Theory and Criticism) *2014: '' Under the Umbrella'' (documentary) *2018: '' Disappearance: Hong Kong Stories'' (360 VR documentary) *2019: '' Matsutake Hunters'' (documentary) *2022: ''This Phantom Pain, Letter #1'' (experimental short) *2022: ''In Relation, Letter #2'' (experimental short)

Bibliography

Books

* ''The Documentary Filmmaker's Intuition: Creating Ethical and Impactful Non-fiction Films'' (

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, 2024)

Edited books

* ''Ties That Bind: Race and the Politics of Friendship in South Africa'' with Jon Soske (Wits University Press/

New York University Press New York University Press (or NYU Press) is a university press that is part of New York University. History NYU Press was founded in 1916 by the then chancellor of NYU, Elmer Ellsworth Brown. Directors * Arthur Huntington Nason, 1916–19 ...

, 2016) * ''In My Life: Stories from Young Activists in South Africa 2002-2022'' with Claudia Mitchell and Mandla Oliphant (Jacana Media, 2022)

Screenplays

*2014: ''

Man Bitch A man is an adult male human. Prior to adulthood, a male human is referred to as a boy (a male child or adolescent). Like most other male mammals, a man's genome usually inherits an X chromosome from the mother and a Y chro ...

'' adaptation of novella by

Johan van Wyk Johan * Johan (given name) * ''Johan'' (film), a 1921 Swedish film directed by Mauritz Stiller * Johan (band), a Dutch pop-group ** ''Johan'' (album), a 1996 album by the group * Johan Peninsula, Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada * Jo-Han, a ...

*2018: ''

Unidentified Minor ''Unidentified'' is a 2006 science fiction Christian film produced by Rich Christiano and Alvin Mount. It was written and directed by Rich Christiano and stars Jonathan Aube, Josh Adamson, Michael Blain-Rozgay, Jenna Bailey, Lance Zitron, and t ...

Awards

Awarded the 2023

for Artistic Achievement.

Film awards

Other Awards

*2003 - Power Corp Fellowship, Concordia University *2003 - Fonds Québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture (FQRSC) MA fellowship *2003 - CIDA Awards for Canadians *2005 - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canadian Graduate Research Scholarship (PhD) *2007 - Young Researcher Award, SANPAD Poverty Conference, Durban, South Africa *2009 -

Trudeau Foundation The Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation (french: Fondation Pierre Elliott Trudeau), commonly called the Trudeau Foundation (french: Fondation Trudeau), is an independent and non-partisan Canadian charity founded in 2001 by friends and family of for ...

Scholarship, Finalist *2011 -

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC; french: Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada, CRSH) is a Canadian federal research-funding agency that promotes and supports post-secondary research and traini ...

, Post-Doctoral Fellowship *2017 - Leading Scholar,

Green College, University of British Columbia Green College is a centre for interdisciplinary scholarship and a community of scholars at the University of British Columbia founded by Cecil Howard Green and Ida Green. The college consists of a residential community of nearly 100 graduate stu ...

*2018 - Wall Scholar,

Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies was founded in 1991 and is the senior research institute at the University of British Columbia. It supports basic research through collaborative, interdisciplinary initiatives. The institute brings toge ...

*2020 -

References

External links

*
Films by Shannon Walsh at NFB website
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