Katia Shannon writes and directs high-stakes and emotionally nuanced, performance-led stories for film and TV. Her award-winning films have received international accolades, playing at Academy, BAFTA and CSA Qualifying festivals, including Calgary, HollyShorts, Edmonton, Foyle, Bolton and Fantasia.
An EDA-Award nominee at Whistler, Katia’s first narrative short Standstill was broadcast on Fuse, and is now streaming on Omeleto with 60K+ views, and 3M+ views on TikTok after a CSA-qualifying festival run. Her latest short, BFI-funded Us & in Between was nominated for the Oscar-qualifying Light in Motion Award at the 2023 Foyle Film Festival.
Through thriller, drama and romcom, Katia’s stories explore love, adversity and disability representation. Katia studied filmmaking at MHSoC/Concordia and is a Netflix x BANFF Diversity of Voices alumni and a DSO (Disability Screen Office Delegation) Alumni at Content Canada 2022. In 2024, she received Bell Slate Development funding for her series ‘Vi’, developed through Quebec-based prod co Harrington Studio, and was shortlisted for the BFI's early development fund.
She has also led the film commission for the Laurentides region and edited award-winning feature documentaries with her work broadcast internationally.
Katia is a keen photographer who experiments aesthetically with her grandfather's Canon AE-1, which informs the visual landscape of her films.
Credit: Godefroy Mosry