Category Directing
Shandi Mitchell is an award winning screenwriter/ director and author. Her feature, The Disappeared (2012) and shorts, Baba’s House and Tell Me, have screened nationally and internationally and earned numerous awards for script, direction, performance, art and sound design. She has guest directed for television series as diverse as Sex and Violence and Theodore Tugboat. Mitchell has also worked as a mentor instructor, story consultant for AFCOOP, NFB, and Equinox Europe’s International Screenwriters workshop, Austria. Her award winning debut novel Under This Unbroken Sky (2009) was published by Penguin Canada, Harper Collins US, and Weidenfeld & Nicholson UK, with translations in Chinese, Hebrew, Dutch, and Italian.