Shannon Walsh is a director and writer of six feature documentaries and dozens of shorts, on topics ranging from labor rights, to grief, love and climate change that have screened around the world. Indiewire called her latest film Adrianne & the Castle (2024), an “exquisite” and “intoxicating story”, while The Gig is Up (2021) was hailed by Variety for being “galvanizing and moving.”
Her films have been theatrically released and broadcast globally, screening in festivals around the world such as SXSW, IDFA, Hot Docs, CPH:DOX, Doc NYC and many others, as well as playing art spaces, like the Venice Biennale and the Pompidou Centre. She is also a scholar, focused on inequality, social justice, and visual methods, largely focused on South Africa. She has published 40+ journal articles and book chapters, co-edited two volumes, and released book The Documentary Filmmaker’s Intuition in 2024.
At MacDowell, Walsh worked on editing and writing new materials for the feature hybrid film with the working title London Calling, of which she had shot initial footage with support from the Canada Council for the Arts. She also wrote a substantial amount for her first fiction novel, titled Wormhole.
