|
|
Biography
Shirley Thompson is an Emmy award-winning editor, producer and story consultant, who creates thought-provoking, social-issue documentaries for television. The films she has edited have won Emmy awards, Best of Festival Awards, Cine Golden Eagles, and the DuPont Columbia Award for Journalism, and they have screened at film festivals worldwide. She has been privileged to work on films that have had profound positive impacts on countless lives and which have contributed to more peace, understanding, joy, respect and love in the world.
Shirley is known for being a strong creative collaborator and confidant, as well as an expert narrative constructor. Well-versed in classic documentary techniques, as well as the avantgarde, she is fearless in delving into the depths of any type of film. She has produced, written and directed her own films, and brings a well-rounded filmmaking background, as well as a high degree of technical knowledge, to any assignment.
She seeks social issue film projects on which to collaborate with filmmakers who share the dream of changing the world for the better.
A New Orleans native, she lived and worked in San Francisco for 13 years, and Dallas for 8 years. She recently relocated her life and work to Honolulu, Hawaii. She is the past president of Women in Film.Dallas and a member of the New Day Films collective. In 1991, she produced and directed the documentary, Young Aspirations/Young Artists, about an after-school design studio for talented urban youth in New Orleans.
On the side, she cooks a mean venison chili, tends an organic garden, travels at the drop of a hat and doesn’t dance or do yoga nearly enough.
Photo by Kris Hundt
