Shannon Walsh

Director

Biography

Canada

Shannon Walsh is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, and Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of British Columbia. She is writer and director of the feature documentaries Illusions of Control (2019), Jeppe on a Friday (2013), St-Henri, the 26th of August (2011), and H2Oil (2009). Her first short non-fiction 360 VR, Disappearance: Hong Kong Stories, premiered at RIDM in 2018. In 2018, her first fiction feature script, Unidentified Minor, was a top ten finalist in the Cinequest Screenplay Competition. Walsh’s films have been theatrically released in Canada, the UK, and South Africa, and played in over 60 film festivals worldwide such as Hot Docs, Visions du Réel, Beijing, La Rochelle, Rome, Paris Cinéma, Durban, Bergen and others. Her documentaries have been broadcast nationally and internationally. Biography Source

Filmography

Revisit (2002)
Sayeh (2003)
Fire & Hope (2004)
No One Is Illegal (2005)
Inkani (2006)
The Space in Between (2007)
Home-less (2008)
H2Oil (2009)
À St-Henri, le 26 août (2011)
Jeppe on a Friday (2012)
Unidentified Minor (2017)
Illusions of Control (2019)

Films Curated by AFF