SHANNON WALSH
Shannon Walsh is an award-winning filmmaker and writer whose work explores power, intimacy, labour and social change. A Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, her films have screened internationally at festivals including SXSW, IDFA, Hot Docs, CPH:DOX and DOC NYC, as well as at institutions including the Venice Biennale and the Centre Pompidou.
Her films have been released theatrically and broadcast internationally, and move between intimate character-driven storytelling and larger questions about work, inequality, climate, grief and the ways people make lives together.
Walsh is also the author of The Documentary Filmmaker’s Intuition (Routledge, 2024) and has published widely on documentary, visual methods, inequality and social justice. She is an Associate Professor of Film Production at the University of British Columbia and a Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg.
SELECTED RECOGNITION
2026 — CHANEL Women Creators’ Network Grant
2026 — TIFF Writers’ Lab
2025 — Royal Society of Canada, College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists
2025 — MacDowell Fellowship, Ernest and Red Heller Fellow
2023 — Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts
2020 — Guggenheim Fellowship
SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY
ADRIANNE & THE CASTLE, 2024
THE GIG IS UP, 2021
ILLUSIONS OF CONTROL, 2019
JEPPE ON A FRIDAY, 2013, with Arya Lalloo
À ST-HENRI LE 26 AOÛT, 2011
H2OIL, 2009
Full filmography / CV available on request