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Biography
Shirley Thompson is an Emmy award-winning editor, producer and story consultant based in Dallas, Texas. She edits thought-provoking, social-issue documentaries for television. The documentaries she has edited have been awarded 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 also writes and produces on-air promotions for PBS' Independent Lens, as well as trailers and sample clips for independent filmmakers.
Shirley is known for her strong collaborative skills, as well as her powerful storytelling style. 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.
A New Orleans native, she lived and worked in San Francisco for 13 years before moving to Dallas in 2002. She is the past president of Women in Film.Dallas, and a member of the New Day Films collective. As an Avid Certified Instructor from 1994 to 2006 she taught hundreds of editors basic to advanced editing techniques. She produced and directed her own documentary, Young Aspirations/Young Artists, about an after-school design studio for talented urban youth in New Orleans.
She is presently co-producing a documentary with filmmaker Ellen Frankenstein called Eating Alaska about a former vegetarian who meets a group of Alaska women hunters, editing a documentary called Mother Land by Kathy Leichter, and cutting promos and trailers for Independent Lens and ITVS International. On the side, she cooks a mean venison chili, tends an organic garden, travels at the drop of a hat, is training to walk a half marathon, and doesn’t dance or do yoga nearly enough.
Photo by Kris Hundt
