Shannon Walsh is a filmmaker and writer whose award-winning films cover topics ranging from labour rights, to grief and climate change. Shannon’s most recent film, 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, screening in festivals around the world such as IDFA, Hot Docs, CPH:DOX, Doc NYC and many others, as well as playing art spaces, such as the Venice Biennale and the Pompidou Centre in Paris. Currently, Shannon teaches film as an Associate Professor at UBC. She was Guggenheim Fellow in 2020 and in 2023, she was awarded the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts.