About

Shelagh Carter is a Lifetime Member of The Actors Studio as an Actress and Director, a Professor of Theatre and Film at the University of Winnipeg and a graduate of the Canadian Film Centre’s Directors Lab in Toronto. As a director, Shelagh has created work for over ten years. 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 Canadian Film Centre’s Short Dramatic Film 2009 series, screened at several international film festivals. She has also 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, earned film festival attention and honors. Her second indie feature, Before Anything You Say, an innovative drama based on a true story toured the festival circuit. Her latest feature film, Into Invisible Light is touring festivals, and she is the director on the comedy feature Love, Repeat written by Bill Connington. 

In 2010 she was selected to attend the Women In the Director’s Chair Career Advancement Module presented in collaboration with Vancouver International Women in Film Festival Vancouver.