Susan Shipton

Susan Shipton grew up in Toronto where she has spent most of her life, until a recent move took she and her husband and two dogs to the countryside east of Toronto. Susan is a graduate of the Film Studies program at Queen's University.

Susan is best known as an editor for her work with director Atom Egoyan, his latest film, Adoration is their seventh collaboration. Susan received a Genie Award for Best Achievement in Film Editing for Egoyan's The Sweet Hereafter and for her work with Robert LePage on Possible Worlds. She was also awarded the director's Guild of Canada craft Award for editing Istvan Szabo's Being Julia.

Susan has just returned from five months in Brussels where she worked with celebrated director Jaco VanDormael (Toto Le Hero) on his extraordinary new film, Mr. Nobody.

Susan also wrote, produced and directed the short film, Hindsight (based on Dennis Foon's play of the same name), which was invited to numerous international film festivals, including the 2000 Montréal World Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival and the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival. She is currently writing an adaptation of the novel Wild Dogs by acclaimed author Helen Humphreys. She is developing the project with Producer Simone Urdl (Adoration, Luck) for Susan to direct in the summer of 2009.

Editing: The Cut Stops Here
FILM DAY, September 25, 4.15 pm - 5.30 pm