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Shannon Walsh
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Shannon Walsh is a Canadian filmmaker, writer and scholar. She has directed the feature documentaries The Gig Is Up,[1] H2Oil ,[2] À St-Henri, le 26 août,[3] Jeppe on a Friday[4] and Illusions of Control.[5][6][7] She has also directed music videos for the Montreal based artist Little Scream.[8]

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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.[9][10]

She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020[11] and awarded a Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2023.

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Filmography

Feature films

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)[14]
  • 2022: In Relation, Letter #2 (experimental short)
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Bibliography

Books

  • The Documentary Filmmaker's Intuition: Creating Ethical and Impactful Non-fiction Films (Routledge, 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, 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
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Awards

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Awarded the 2023 Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts for Artistic Achievement.[15]

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