Shelagh Carter

Trained at the Canadian Film Centre (Director) and a Lifetime Member of The Actors Studio (Actress/Director), Shelagh has created work for both theatre and film. Her short films and features have won prestigious international nominations and awards. Of note: Best Manitoba Director 2018 by the DGC for her indie feature, Before Anything You Say, and her third feature Into Invisible Light winning the Directors’ Choice Independent Spirit Award at the Sedona International Film Festival 2020; Best Ladies Illuminate Feature at the Lady Filmmakers Film Festival Los Angeles, October 2020, and on behalf of the film, awarded Best Director, at the Swedish International Film Festival, July 2021. Her first feature film Passionflower is being honoured and presented at FilmHaus Berlin’s Festival Event October/ November 2024. In a Station of the Metro, a one -minute film, shot on a virtual production stage, was recently awarded Best One-Minute Film at the Beyond the Curve International Film Festival Paris 2024, and the Swedish International Film Festival 2024. Shelagh is considered an actor’s director. 

Dual Citizenship USA/CDN. Manitoba resident. English speaking.

Filmography: The Darkling Plain (short, 1999), Rifting/Blue (short, 2005), Night Travellers (short, 2007), One Night (short,2009), Resolve (short, 2009), Canoe (short, 2010), Passionflower (feature, 2011), Is It My Turn (short, 2013), Before Anything You Say (feature, 2016), Into Invisible Light (feature, 2018), Love, Repeat (feature, 2020), Missing and Alone (TV feature, 2021); In a Station of the Metro - (short, 2023).