Shannon Walsh

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Adrianne & The Castle

Shannon Walsh is a director and writer of multiple award-winning feature documentaries cover 
topics ranging from labour rights, to grief and climate change. Shannon’s last film about the 
platform economy, The Gig is Up (2021), was hailed by Variety for being “galvanizing and 
moving” and The Hollywood Reporter called it “a devastating reality check”. Her films have been 
theatrically released and broadcast globally, as well as screening in festivals around the world 
such as IDFA, Hot Docs, CPH:DOX, Doc NYC and many others. As a writer, she has published 
extensively, as well as authoring two co-edited volumes, and the book “The Documentary 
Filmmaker’s Intuition: Creating ethical and impactful nonfiction films” (2024). Walsh teaches 
film as an Associate Professor at UBC. Shannon is a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, and was awarded the Canadian Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Art in 2023. Her latest feature film, Adrianne &amp; the Castle, has its world premiere at SXSW.

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Adrianne & The Castle