Karen Shopsowitz is a Peabody-award winning film-maker, whose work has been
screened nationally and internationally. Her most recent credit is The Other Side of the Hero, produced with Enrico Colantoni and Diana Warmé, about first responders living with PTSD. Prior to that, she made GrandParenting, produced in association with TVO, which takes an intimate look at several grandparents who are raising their grandchildren with little or no involvement from their own children. Karen produced/directed/edited One Summer at Camp Winston, a one hour doc about a camp for children with complex neurological disorders, produced in association with the documentary channel in Canada. Other highlights include director/editor and co-writer of My Father’s Camera, (produced by the National Film Board of Canada, and winner of the prestigious Peabody Award), series producer and director/co-editor of Canada’s War in Colour (produced by YAP Films, and broadcast on the CBC and SRC, producer/director/writer/editor of A Place to Save Your Life (about the Jewish refugee community of Shanghai), and producer/director/writer/editor of the award-winning My Grandparents Had a Hotel.
Karen has worked on dozens of other productions, ranging from stand-alone
documentaries to documentary series for television, music videos, and fiction.
She has a Bachelor of Journalism degree from Carletong University, Ottawa, a
Masters of Fine Arts in Film and Video from York University, Toronto, and a Certificate in Feature Film Writing from UCLA’s on-line writer’s studio and is an alumna of the WIDC program in Banff. She currently teaches film production and editing at Toronto’s Centennial College.
Awards & Nominations
My Father’s Camera
2001 Peabody Award (produced by the NFB)