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Shannon Walsh
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London, Ontario, Canada
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| Education | Phd, McGill University; MA, Concordia University; BFA, Concordia University. |
| Occupation | Film director, Associate Professor |
| Years active | 2008–present |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship; Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts; Wall Scholar Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies |
Shannon Walsh is a Canadian filmmaker, writer and scholar. She has directed the feature documentaries The Gig Is Up, 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.
Walsh, who was born in London, Ontario, is also an academic, and teaches film production at the University of British Columbia 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 in 2020 and awarded a Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts 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: The Gig Is Up (feature documentary)
Short films
- 2002: Revisit (experimental fiction) directed with Rawi Hage
- 2003: Sayeh (medium-length documentary) directed with Kaveh Nabatian 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)
Awards
Awarded the 2023 Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts for Artistic Achievement.
Film awards
| Year | Category | Festival | Film | Result |
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| 2009 | Quebec/Canada Best Hope Award | Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal | H2Oil | Nominated |
| 2009 | Eco-Camera, Honorable Mention | Rencontres internationales du documentaire de Montréal | H2Oil | Won |
| 2010 | Grand Prize | Festival de films pour l'environnement | H2Oil | Won |
| 2011 | Best Feature Documentary | CRiterio Ambiental Film Festival | H2Oil | Won |
| 2014 | Audience Award | Black Movie Film Festival | Jeppe on a Friday | Nominated |
| 2015 | Best Documentary | Indie Karoo Film Festival | Jeppe on a Friday | Won |
| 2017 | Best Screenplay, Quarter-Finalist | Shore Scripts Feature Film competition | Unidentified Minor | Won |
| 2017 | Best Low-Budget Screenplay | Toronto Female Eye Film Festival | Unidentified Minor | Won |
| 2018 | Top Ten Feature Film Scripts | Cinequest Film Festival | Unidentified Minor | Won |
| 2018 | Best Screenplay, Top 10 selection | Vancouver International Women in Film Festival | Unidentified Minor | Nominated |
| 2019 | Best Canadian Doc | Hot Docs | Illusions of Control | Nominated |
| 2019 | Best Canadian Doc, Honourable Mention | Calgary International Film Festival | Illusions of Control | Won |
| 2021 | Big Screen Doc Award | Millennium Docs Against Gravity | The Gig is Up | Nominated |
| 2021 | Best Canadian Documentary | Hot Docs | The Gig is Up | Nominated |
| 2021 | Truth Award Nominee | DokuFest International Film Festival | The Gig is Up | Nominated |
| 2021 | F:ACT Award | CPH:DOX | The Gig is Up | Nominated |
| 2021 | Old Oak Audience Choice Award | Forest City Film Festival | The Gig is Up | Won |
| 2022 | Best Editing (Sophie Farkas Bolla) | Canadian Screen Awards | The Gig is Up | Nominated |
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 Scholarship, Finalist
- 2011 - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Post-Doctoral Fellowship
- 2017 - Leading Scholar, Green College, University of British Columbia
- 2018 - Wall Scholar, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies
- 2020 - Guggenheim Fellowship
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