Shannon Walsh is a Canadian filmmaker, writer and scholar. She has directed the feature documentaries The Gig Is Up, H2Oil ,À St-Henri, le 26 août, Jeppe on a Friday and Illusions of Control. She has also directed music videos for the Montreal based artist Little Scream.Walsh, who was born in London, Ontario, is also an academic, and teaches film production at the University of British Columbia in the Department of Theatre and Film. She is the co-editor of the book Ties that Bind: Race and the Politics of Friendship in South Africa with historian Jon Soske. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2020.