Shelley Thompson

Actor/Writer/Director: Shelley Thompson Writer/Director/Producer/Actor Shelley Thompson is based in Wolfville, in Mi'kma'ki. (Nova Scotia, Canada) Trained at RADA (London, UK); Canadian Film Centre (Toronto,ON) Women In The Directors Chair,(Vancouver, BC) the Writers Lab (NYC,NY) and most recently the Whistler Film Festival's Producer's Lab. Her award-winning short films include DUCK DUCK GOOSE, about the impact of school lockdowns on children, which won Best Atlantic Short at Halifax Int FF, was selected by Telefilm Canada's Not Short on Talent for Clermont-Ferrand, and was a finalist in CBC's Short Film Faceoff. Her first feature, DAWN, HER DAD & THE TRACTOR was released in 2021, selling out at InsideOut, FIN, and the UK's BFI Flare Festival. It played at festivals and in cinemas across Canada, settling on CRAVE Canada, while continuing festival play outside Canada. In November 2022 DAWN won the Nova Scotia Masterworks Award, Nova Scotia's largest arts award, and won or was nomina