Susan Shipton

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Susan Shipton (* 1958 in Toronto ) is a Canadian film editor , the year 30 in her career more than 50 film and television productions for the Editor was responsible, including Exotica , Mesmer , When Night Is Falling , Being Julia and Mr. Nobody .

life and career

After graduating in 1982 with a degree in film studies from Queen's University in Kingston , Ontario, Susan Shipton worked as an assistant editor in cinema productions such as David Cronenberg's horror film The Fly or Leonard Nimoy's film drama The Price of Emotions in the mid to late 1980s .

Since working for Atom Egoyan's The Estimator in 1991, Shipton has worked internationally as a freelance editor for more than 50 film and television productions. These included Paul Shapiro's Paradise with Small Flaws , Roger Spottiswoodes Mesmer , Patricia Rozemas When the Night Begins , John N. Smith's No Father Yesterday , István Szabós Being Julia , Jaco Van Dormael's Mr. Nobody and Jon Cassars Forsaken .

In her career as an editor, Susan Shipton has been nominated for numerous film awards, including twice for the Canadian Cinema Editors Award , for the Directors Guild of Canada and several times for the Canadian Genie Award . In 2001 she won the Genie Award in the Best Achievement in Editing category for the Tilda Swinton mystery thriller Possible Worlds by director Robert Lepage .

Your collaboration with the Canadian - Armenian director Atom Egoyan now includes a total of eleven cinema productions, including the films Exotica , The Sweet Beyond , Felicia, My Angel , Ararat , True Lies , Simon's Secret , Chloe , Barney's Version , Devil's Knot - Im Schatten der Truth and The Captive .

In 2000 she directed the Canadian short film Hindsight, starring Martha Burns, as director, producer and screenwriter , for which she received a nomination in the First Prize (Short Films) category at the World Film Festival in Montreal .

Susan Shipton is a member of the Canadian Cinema Editors Society.

Filmography (selection)

movie theater

watch TV

  • 1994: Mothers and Daughters (Lives of Girls & Women) (TV movie)
  • 1995: The Awakening (TV movie)
  • 1995: Great Performances (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 1998: Scandalous Me: The Jacqueline Susann Story (TV movie)
  • 2000: Blessed Stranger: After Flight 111 (TV movie)
  • 2001: A Nero Wolfe Mystery (TV series, 3 episodes)
  • 2002: Too Young to Be a Dad (TV movie)
  • 2002: The Man Who Saved Christmas (TV movie)
  • 2004: Samantha: An American Girl Holiday (TV movie)
  • 2007: Matters of Life & Dating (TV movie)
  • 2009: Cra $ h & Burn (TV series, 1 episode)
  • 2012: Titanic (TV miniseries, 4 episodes)
  • 2015: The Book of Negroes (TV miniseries, 3 episodes)
  • 2015–2016: The Expanse (TV series, 3 episodes)
  • 2017: Bellevue (TV series, 3 episodes)
  • 2020: Nurses (TV series, 3 episodes)

Short and documentary films

  • 1992: Efram (short film)
  • 1999: Toy Soldiers (short film)
  • 2000: Hindsight (short film) also production, direction and screenplay
  • 2012: Flight of the Butterflies (documentary)

literature

  • Susan Shipton. In: Kate Bales: Cinematographers, Production Designers, Costume Designers & Film Editors Guide. , Lone Eagle, 1999, p. 606
  • Susan Shipton In: Wyndham Wise Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film. , University of Toronto Press, 2001, p. 130

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Susan Shipton in: Festival Cannes
  2. ↑ Susan Shipton In: Jennifer Burwell, Monique Tschofen Image and Territory: Essays on Atom Egoyan. , Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007, p. 368
personal data
SURNAME Shipton, Susan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian film editor
DATE OF BIRTH 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto