Karen Shopsowitz

Co-Producer & Editor

Karen Shopsowitz is a Peabody Award–winning producer, director, editor and cameraperson whose work has screened nationally and internationally. Her recent credits include Magic Shadows: Elwy Yost – A Life in Movies (Firestarter Productions/TVO), for which she received two Canadian Screen Award nominations for directing and writing. She co-produced and edited the short film Mudder’s Hands, which screened at festivals across Canada and the United States.

Shopsowitz is producer, director and editor of The Other Side of the Hero, a documentary about first responders and PTSD (co-produced with Enrico Colantoni and Diana Warmé), which aired on CBC’s Documentary Channel and screened at festivals and events across North America. Her earlier work includes directing, editing and co-writing My Father’s Camera (NFB), winner of a prestigious Peabody Award; serving as series producer and director/co-editor of Canada’s War in Colour (YAP Films for CBC and SRC); and producing, directing and editing documentaries such as GrandParenting (TVO), One Summer at Camp Winston (CBC), and the internationally screened, award-winning My Grandparents Had a Hotel.

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