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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 .

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
  • 2019: Illusions of Control (feature documentary)
  • 2021: The Gig Is Up (feature documentary)
  • 2024: Adrianne and the Castle (feature documentary)

Short films
  • 2002: Revisit (experimental fiction) directed with
  • 2003: Sayeh (medium-length documentary) directed with 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 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: (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 (, 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: adaptation of novella by Johan van Wyk
  • 2018: Unidentified Minor

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

Film awards
2009Quebec/Canada Best Hope AwardRencontres internationales du documentaire de MontréalH2Oil
2009Eco-Camera, Honorable MentionRencontres internationales du documentaire de MontréalH2Oil
2010Grand PrizeFestival de films pour l'environnementH2Oil
2011Best Feature DocumentaryCRiterio Ambiental Film FestivalH2Oil
2014Audience AwardBlack Movie Film FestivalJeppe on a Friday
2015Best DocumentaryIndie Karoo Film FestivalJeppe on a Friday
2017Best Screenplay, Quarter-FinalistShore Scripts Feature Film competitionUnidentified Minor
2017Best Low-Budget ScreenplayToronto Female Eye Film FestivalUnidentified Minor
2018Top Ten Feature Film ScriptsCinequest Film FestivalUnidentified Minor
2018Best Screenplay, Top 10 selectionVancouver International Women in Film FestivalUnidentified Minor
2019Best Canadian DocIllusions of Control
2019Best Canadian Doc, Honourable MentionCalgary International Film FestivalIllusions of Control
2021Big Screen Doc AwardMillennium Docs Against GravityThe Gig is Up
2021Best Canadian DocumentaryThe Gig is Up
2021Truth Award NomineeDokuFest International Film FestivalThe Gig is Up
2021F:ACT Award The Gig is Up
2021Old Oak Audience Choice AwardForest City Film FestivalThe Gig is Up
2022Best Editing (Sophie Farkas Bolla)Canadian Screen AwardsThe Gig is Up

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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