Kathleen Shannon Movies

This short film is told in the first person by Rose, a Métis woman from northern Alberta who has left a difficult life in the city to...

The short documentary looks at some innovative approaches to providing services and accommodation for battered women in rural, northern, and Native...

This short film from the Canada Vignettes series profiles a unique French-Canadian family, the Fourniers, 12 of whom work as stunt men and women for...

A film by Christopher Chapman, known for his lyrical films of countryside and wilderness. He turns his colour camera on the growing city and there...

Young long-distance runner Bruce Kidd practices and competes.

This short documentary looks at how the community of London, Ontario, has implemented a plan to address the issue of domestic violence. These...

In this short documentary we learn the back story of the Buddha – the religion he founded and how it is manifested today. Travel through...

If you erase the people of downtown America, the effect is bizarre, not to say disturbing. That is what this film does. It shows the familiar urban...

Joan is a welfare mother with seven children. Originally from the Maritimes, she now lives in Montréal. She would like to work as a waitress,...

Joy is a research biologist, a consultant to a large company. She is also a widow with two school-age children. In discussing her own dilemmas she...

In the mountainous country near Lillooet, British Columbia, eleven-year-old Kevin Alec of the Fountain Indian Reserve learns to make fishnets with...

Kathleen Shannon describes the look and feel of her childhood to an artist friend, and uses his paintings and her visit to the ruins of the mining...