Kathleen Shannon  

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Kathleen Shannon Template:Post-nominals (November 11, 1935 – January 9, 1998) was a Canadian film director and producer. She is best known as the founder and first executive producer of Studio D of the National Film Board of Canada, the first government-funded film studio in the world dedicated to women filmmakers.

While executive producer, Shannon oversaw the creation and production of over 80 films, including Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography (1981), and the Academy Award-winning documentaries I'll Find a Way (1977) and If You Love This Planet (1982).

Filmography

• Goldwood, 1974 (director; writer; editor; music)
• I Don't Think It's Meant for Us, Challenge for Change series, 1971 (director; editor)
• It's Not Enough, Challenge for Change series, 1974 (director; editor; producer)
• Like the Trees, Challenge for Change series, 1974 (director; editor; producer)
• Luckily I Need Little Sleep, Challenge for Change series, 1974 (director; editor; producer)
• Mothers Are People, Challenge for Change series, 1974 (director; editor; producer)
• Our Dear Sisters, Challenge for Change series, 1974 (director; producer)
• The Spring and Fall of Nina Polanski, 1974 (producer; music)
• They Appreciate You More, Challenge for Change series, 1974 (director; editor; producer)
• Tiger on a Tight Leash, Challenge for Change series, 1974 (director; editor; producer)
• Would I Ever Like to Work, Challenge for Change series, 1974 (director; editor; producer)
• ...And They Lived Happily Ever After, 1975 (co-director with Irene Angelico, Anne Henderson; co-editor with Irene Angelico, Anne Henderson; producer)
• Co-op Housing: The Best Move We Ever Made, 1975 (producer)
• Co-op Housing: Getting It Together, 1975 (producer)
• Great Grand Mother, 1975 (producer)
• My Friends Call Me Tony, 1975 (producer)
• My Name Is Susan Lee, 1975 (producer)
• Just-A-Minute, 1976 (producer)
• Maud Lewis: A World Without Shadows, 1976 (producer)
• A Working Chance, 1976 (producer)
• Beautiful Lennard Island, 1977 (producer)
• Gurdeep Singh Bains, 1977 (producer)
• How They Saw Us: Needles and Pins, 1977 (producer)
• How They Saw Us: Women at War, 1977 (producer)
• How They Saw Us: Women at Work, 1977 (producer)
• Kevin Alex, 1977 (producer)
• The Lady from Grey County, 1977 (producer)
• Some American Feminists, 1977 (producer)
• Veronica, 1977 (producer)
• Benoît, 1978 (producer)
• Canada Vignettes: Flin Flon, 1978 (producer)
• Canada Vignettes: Holidays, 1978 (producer)
• Canada Vignettes: Stunt Family, 1978 (producer)
• Canada Vignettes: The Thirties, 1978 (producer)
• Eve Lambart, 1978 (producer)
• Patricia's Moving Picture, 1978 (producer)
• Rencontre, 1978 (producer)
• Sun, Wind and Wood, 1978 (producer)
• An Unremarkable Birth, 1978 (producer)
• Canada Vignettes: McIntosh, 1979 (producer)
• Prairie Album, 1979 (producer)
• The Right Candidate for Rosedale, 1979 (producer)
• Sea Dream, 1979 (producer)
• Boys Will Be Men, 1980 (producer)
• Canada Vignettes: Agnes Campbell MacPhail, 1980 (producer)
• Canada Vignettes: Birth, 1980 (producer)
• Canada Vignettes: Homestead, 1980 (producer)
• Canada Vignettes: The Vote, 1980 (producer)
• Just A Lady, 1980 (producer)
• Laila, 1980 (producer)
• Rusting World, 1980 (producer)
• The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, 1980 (producer)
• Julie O'Brien, 1981 (producer)
• Louise Drouin: Veterinarian, 1981 (producer)
• Four Centuries: The Firearm in Canada, 1982 (producer)
• It's Just Better, 1982 (producer)
• Portrait of the Artist... as an Old Lady, 1982 (producer)
• The Way It Is, 1982 (producer)
• Attention: Women at Work, 1983 (producer)
• Dream of a Free Country: A Message from Nicaraguan Women, 1983 (director; producer)
• I Want to Be an Engineer, 1983 (producer)
• Pukaskwa National Park, 1983 (producer)
• Adèle and the Ponies of Ardmore, 1984 (producer)
• Abortion: Stories from North and South, 1984 (producer)
• Behind the Veil: Nuns, 1984 (producer)
• Head Start: Meeting the Computer Challenge, 1984 (producer)
• On Our Own, 1984 (producer)
• This Borrowed Land, 1984 (producer)
• Too Dirty for a Woman, 1984 (producer)
• The Treadmill, 1984 (producer)
• Turnaround: A Story of Recovery, 1984 (writer; co-editor with Shelly Hamer; producer)
• Waterwalker, 1984 (producer)
• The Best Time of My Life: Portraits of Women in Mid-Life, 1985 (producer)
• Dark Lullabies, 1985 (producer)
• DES: An Uncertain Legacy, 1985 (producer)
• Speaking Our Peace, 1985 (producer)
• Spirit of the Kata, 1985 (producer)
• A Writer in the Nuclear Age: A Conversation with Margaret Laurence, 1985 (producer)
• Beyond Memory, 1986 (producer)
• Children of War, 1986 (producer)
• Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief, 1986 (producer)
• Firewords: Louky Bersianik, Jovette Marchessault, Nicole Brossard, 1986 (producer)
• First Take Double Take, 1986 (producer)
• The Impossible Takes a Little Longer, 1986 (producer)
• Moving On, 1986 (producer)
• No Longer Silent, 1986 (producer)
• Nuclear Addiction: Dr. Rosalie Bertell on the Cost of Deterrence, 1986 (producer)
• A Safe Distance, 1986 (producer)
• Speaking of Nairobi, 1986 (producer)
• Sylvie's Story, 1986 (producer)
• Thin Dreams, 1986 (producer)
• The Legacy of Mary McEwen, 1987 (producer)
• A Love Affair with Politics: A Portrait of Marion Dewar, 1987 (producer)
• The Man Who Stole Dreams, 1987 (producer)
• To a Safer Place, 1987 (producer)
• Worth Every Minute, 1987 (producer)
• 15th Anniversary, 1989 (narrator)
• Adam's World, 1989 (producer)
• Goddess Remembered, 1989 (producer)
• Illuminated Lives: A Brief History of Women's Work in the Middle Ages, 1989 (producer)
• Russian Diary, 1989 (producer)
• The Burning Times, 1990 (producer)
• Gathering Together, Faithful Women series, 1990 (director; co-editor with Gerry Rogers)
• Harmony and Balance, Faithful Women series, 1990 (director; co-editor with Gerry Rogers)
• I'll Never Forget You, Faithful Women series, 1990 (director; co-editor with Gerry Rogers)
• Priorities and Perspectives, Faithful Women series, 1990 (director; co-editor with Gerry Rogers)
• Texts and Contexts, Faithful Women series, 1990 (director; co-editor with Gerry Rogers)
• Through Ignorance or Design, Faithful Women series, 1990 (director; co-editor with Gerry Rogers)
• Working towards Peace, Faithful Women series, 1990 (director; editor)
• Full Circle, 1993 (producer)