SHORTWORKS PRODUCTIONS
Shortworks Productions is a Halifax-based organization of indie filmmaker Ann Verrall specializing in community engagement projects that foster cross cultural conversations. Through partnership and collaboration, Shortworks develops thought provoking media arts projects with communities, organizations, schools, Elders, youth and professional artists across the country. Projects include short and long form dramas, documentaries and experimental works.
Ann, of settler ancestry, lives in Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq People. A Halifax-based, award-winning media artist, Ann’s work spans genres of drama, experimental and documentary. A graduate of NSCAD University, Ann’s films have been screened at festivals in Canada, USA, England and Australia, broadcast on CBC, Movieola, MTV Logo, Super Channel and screened on Air Canada. She has taught at NSCAD University and the University of Regina where she was the Filmmaker-in-Residence. Ann also does community-based video collaboration projects in Nova Scotia and Saskatchewan working in partnership with the Centre for Art Tapes in Halifax, cultural organizations in Regina, community groups and schools, as well as a team of professional artists from various disciplines – music, dance, theatre, visual arts and media arts. In 2011, Ann received the Vision and Accomplishment award from Women in Film & Television Atlantic.
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