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Susan Shanks is a Canadian film editor. She is most noted for her work on the documentary film Ghosts of Afghanistan , for which she won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Editing in a Documentary Program or Series at the 10th Canadian Screen Awards in 2022. [1]

She has also been a two-time Genie Award nominee for Best Editing, receiving nods at the 18th Genie Awards in 1997 for The Hanging Garden [2] and at the 20th Genie Awards in 2000 for Beefcake . [3]

Her other credits have included the films Bravery in the Field , Ups and Downs , The Bay Boy , 3 Needles , Steel Toes and The Gospel According to the Blues .

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References

  1. ↑ Jamie Samhan, "2022 Canadian Screen Award Winners: Broadcast News And Documentary & Factual". ET Canada , April 4, 2022.
  2. ↑ Playback Staff (17 November 1997). "The 1997 Genie Awards". Playback . Retrieved 24 March 2017.
  3. ↑ "Genie Award nominations". Toronto Star , December 8, 1999.
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