Ann Shin attended the University of Toronto where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in English Literature She is an awardwinning filmmaker and new media producer whose projects have screened and won awards at festivals including the San Francisco Film Festival Montreal World Film Festival International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam IDFA SXSW New York Festivals Her documentary emThe Defector Escape from North Koreaem was nominated for a Gemini Award for Best Performance Doc and in 2014 she was named as recipient of the Canadian Screen Awards Diversity Award for her work on that same film Her short emMy Enemy My Brotherem was nominated for a 2016 Academy AwardbrbrAlso see a hrefhttpswwwnorthernstarscaannshintoopenhotdocs2021Ann Shin Opens Hot Docs 2021abrbrbr
Features & TV Movies:
VR indicates Direct-to-Video Release
Turning Points of History: Incident at Roswell (TV-2000, documentary)
Western Eyes (TV-2000, documentary)
Almost Real: Connecting in a Wired World (2002, documentary)
The Defector: Escape from North Korea (2012, documentary)
My Enemy, My Brother (2016, short)
The Terrorist Hunter (2018, short, documentary)
Welcome to Kafkaville (2018, short)
Smart Drugs (2018, documentary)
The Superfood Chain (2018, documentary)
A.rtificial I.mmortality (2021, documentary)
TV Series – at least 1 episode of:
Save Us from Our House (2005)
Opening Night (2005)
From the Vaults (2018)
Credits as a Screenwriter:
The Defector: Escape from North Korea (2012, documentary)
My Enemy, My Brother (2016, short)
The Terrorist Hunter (2018, short, documentary)
A.rtificial I.mmortality (2021, documentary)
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