Shannon Amen

Shannon Amen is a Canadian animated short film, directed by Chris Dainty and released in 2019.[1] Created as a tribute to his childhood friend and former creative partner Shannon Jamieson who committed suicide in 2006 after being unable to reconcile her Christian faith with her lesbian identity, the film blends traditional two-dimensional animation, done in Jamieson's style of painting,[2] with Dainty's own technique of "icemation", which blends stop motion and puppetry to animate human figures and objects carved in ice.[3]

Shannon Amen
Film poster
Directed byChris Dainty
Written byChris Dainty
Produced byMaral Mohammadian
CinematographyKarim Ayari
Edited byChris Dainty
Trevor Dixon-Bennett
Music byShannon Jamieson
Lyndell Montgomery
Production
company
Release date
  • September 25, 2019 (2019-09-25) (OIAF)
Running time
15 minutes
CountryCanada

The film premiered on September 26, 2019, at the Ottawa International Animation Festival.[1] In 2020, the film was selected by the Annecy International Animation Film Festival to be featured in We Are One: A Global Film Festival.[4]

The film received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Animated Short at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards in 2020.[5]

References
  1. Philip Lewis, "World premiere and hometown debut for Ottawa filmmaker Chris Dainty and Shannon Amen at the OIAF 2019". The Review, September 27, 2019.
  2. "Chris Dainty and The NFB’s ‘Shannon Amen’ Now Streaming". Animation World Network, October 9, 2020.
  3. Louise Sproule, "Shannon Amen nominated for Canadian Screen Award". The Review, February 24, 2020.
  4. "Shannon Amen : renaître de ses oeuvres". Ici Radio-Canada Première, June 6, 2020.
  5. "Écrans canadiens : Song of Names, The Twentieth Century et Antigone en tête des nominations". Ici Radio-Canada, February 18, 2020.


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