Susan Shanks

{{Short description|Canadian film editor}} '''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.<ref>Jamie Samhan, [https://web.archive.org/web/20220405013214/https://etcanada.com/news/882769/2022-canadian-screen-award-winners-broadcast-news-and-documentary-factual/ "2022 Canadian Screen Award Winners: Broadcast News And Documentary & Factual"]. ''ET Canada'', April 4, 2022.</ref>

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''<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://playbackonline.ca/1997/11/17/19832-19971117/ |title=The 1997 Genie Awards |last=Playback Staff |date=17 November 1997 |access-date=24 March 2017 |work=Playback}}</ref> and at the 20th Genie Awards in 2000 for ''Beefcake''.<ref>"Genie Award nominations". ''Toronto Star'', December 8, 1999.</ref>

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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==External links== *{{IMDb name|0788224}}

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