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 2021 Canadian documentary film, directed by Shannon Walsh. The film explores the impact of the contemporary gig economy on society. The film premiered on April 23, 2021, at the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Fest ...

'', ''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 Canadia ...

. Walsh, who was born in

London, Ontario London 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 (Ontario), Thames River and N ...

, 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 University of British Columbia Vancouver, Vancouver and University of British Columbia Okanagan, Kelowna, in British Columbia, Canada ...

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 Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon Guggenheim, Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon indiv ...

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, each with a prize amount of $25,000. Created in 2000 by then Governor General ...

in 2023.

Filmography

Feature films

*2009: '' H2Oil'' (feature documentary) *2011: '' A St-Henri le 26 Aout'' (feature documentary) *2013: '' Jeppe on a Friday'' (feature documentary) made with Arya Lalloo *2019: '' Illusions of Control'' (feature documentary) *2021: ''

'' (feature documentary) *2024: ''

Adrianne and the Castle ''Adrianne and the Castle'' is a 2024 Canadian documentary film, directed by Shannon Walsh. Premise The film profiles Alan St. George, a man who maintains his home in rural Illinois as a shrine to his late wife Adrianne, including musical re-enac ...

'' (feature documentary)

Short films

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

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*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 was first noted for his 2010 short film ...

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 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/

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, 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'' adaptation of novella by Johan van Wyk *2018: '' Unidentified Minor''

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 (), commonly called the Trudeau Foundation (), is a Canadian charity founded in 2001 named after former Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau. Donations to the charity increased when Justin Trudeau became t ...

Scholarship, Finalist *2011 -

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC; , CRSH), often colloquially pronounced 'shirk' (), is a Canadian federal research-funding agency that promotes and supports post-secondary research and training in the humani ...

, 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 (PWIAS) was founded in 1991 and was a research institute at the University of British Columbia. It supported basic research through collaborative, interdisciplinary initiatives. The institute brought to ...

*2020 -

References

External links

*
Films by Shannon Walsh at NFB website
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