Career Management & Portfolio, Field Placement, Editing
Karen Shopsowitz is a Peabody-award-winning producer, director, editor and cameraperson, whose work has been screened nationally and internationally. Her most recent credit is director of Magic Shadows: Elwy Yost A Life in Movies, produced by Firestarter Productions in association with TVO.
Karen is also the producer/director/editor and second cameraperson of The Other Side of the Hero, a documentary about first responders and PTSD (co-produced with Enrico Colantoni and Diana Warmé), which aired on CBC’s documentary channel and has been screened across North America at several festivals and events. Other documentary highlights include director/editor and co-writer of My Father's Camera, (produced by the NFB and winner of the prestigious Peabody Award) and series producer, director/co-editor of Canada's War in Colour (YAP Films, for CBC and SRC); producer, director and editor of GrandParenting (TVO); One Summer at Camp Winston (CBC documentary), and producer, director, writer, editor of the award-winning My Grandparents Had a Hotel which has screened globally.
Karen has worked as a director and editor on dozens of productions, ranging from stand-alone documentaries to documentary series for television, fiction (including Angel Light, starring Sheila McCarthy and screened at the Montreal World Film Festival), educational works, and music videos. Karen has a Masters of Fine Arts in Film and Video from York University; a Bachelor of Journalism (Honours) from Carleton University; and a Certificate in Feature Film Writing from UCLA Extension, Writer’s Studio. She was also a participant in the Women in the Director’s Chair program (2012).