Shannon Walsh
Shannon Walsh has made 5 award-winning feature documentaries: The Gig is Up (2021), Illusions of Control (2019), Jeppe on a Friday (2013), À St-Henri, le 26 août (2011), and H2Oil (2009). Her films have been theatrically released in the US, Canada, England and South Africa, and broadcast on Al-Jazeera, CBC, SABC, Discovery channel, Netflix and many others. Her work has screened in festivals globally such as Hot Docs, IDFA, CPH:DOX, Visions du Réel, La Rochelle, Full Frame, Beijing and others. Walsh is an Associate Professor of Film Production at the University of British Columbia. She is a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow. 18 other filmmakers participated in the filming of À St-Henri, le 26 août: Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette, Richard Brouillette, Fabien Côté, Tracey Deer, Claude Demers, Yanie Dupont-Hébert, Halima Elkhatabi, Sylvain L'Espérance, Julien Fontaine, Paul Kell, Caroline Martel, Amy Miller, Selin Murat, Kaveh Nabatian, Sarah Spring, Brett Story, Denis Valiquette and Karen Vanderborght
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St-Henri, the 26th of August
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