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Shelagh Carter is a Lifetime Member of The Actors Studio NYC, and a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre’s Directors Lab in Toronto. Night Travellers, her third short film, was a National Screen Institute Drama Prize winner in 2007. Her award winning 35 mm short, One Night, filmed as part of the CFC’s Short Dramatic Film 2009 series, screened at several international film festivals. She has won world festival recognition with her experimental narrative short films Canoe, Rifting/Blue, and Is It My Turn.

Shelagh’s first feature film called Passionflower, the story of Sarah, an 11-year-old girl, forcing her family to come to terms with her mother’s increasing mental instability, has earned film festival attention and awards. For Before Anything You Say, an innovative drama based on a true story, she was honoured to receive Best Manitoba Director 2018 by the DGC. Her third feature film, Into Invisible Light, most recently won the Directors’ Choice Independent Spirit Award at the Sedona International Film Festival 2020, and Best Ladies Illuminate Feature at the Lady Filmmakers Film Festival Los Angeles, October 2020.

A New York City romantic comedy titled Love, Repeat, was completed in the fall of 2019. The Woman Who Swallowed West Hawk Lake, a psychological horror, and Canadian author, David Bergen’s The Time in Between, a moving mediation on love and loss, a drama, are currently in development.

An alumna of Women in The Director’s Chair. A member of the Director’s Guild of Canada. Dual Citizen - USA, Canada.