Shannon Walsh
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 List of [Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 2020|Guggenheim Fellowship] in 2020 and awarded a Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts in 2023.
Filmography
Feature films
- 2009: H2Oil
- 2011: A St-Henri le 26 Aout
- 2013: Jeppe on a Friday made with Arya Lalloo
- 2019: Illusions of Control
- 2021: The Gig Is Up
- 2024: ''Adrianne and the Castle''
Short films
- 2002: Revisit directed with Rawi Hage
- 2003: Sayeh directed with Kaveh Nabatian and Nicolas Rutigliano
- 2003: Fire & Hope
- 2004: Close-Up
- 2006: Inkani with Heinrich Bohmke
- 2007: The Space In Between starring Rich Terfry and Elizabeth Powell
- 2012: Niger Delta Remix: Last Rights Niger Delta
- 2014: Under the Umbrella
- 2018: Disappearance: Hong Kong Stories
- 2019: Matsutake Hunters
- 2022: This Phantom Pain, Letter #1
- 2022: ''In Relation, Letter #2''
Books
- ''The Documentary Filmmaker's Intuition: Creating Ethical and Impactful Non-fiction Films''
Edited books
- Ties That Bind: Race and the Politics of Friendship in South Africa with Jon Soske
- In My Life: Stories from Young Activists in South Africa 2002-2022 with Claudia Mitchell and Mandla Oliphant
Screenplays
- 2014: Man Bitch adaptation of novella by Johan van Wyk
- 2018: ''Unidentified Minor''
Awards
Film awards
Other awards
- 2003 - Power Corp Fellowship, Concordia University
- 2003 - Fonds Québécois de la recherche sur la société et la culture MA fellowship
- 2003 - CIDA Awards for Canadians
- 2005 - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Canadian Graduate Research Scholarship
- 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