Beverly Shaffer
- Directing
- Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Biography
Beverly Shaffer (1945-) is a filmmaker in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Shaffer spent the bulk of her professional career with the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), directing short documentaries and dramas. Her documentary I'll Find a Way, about a young girl with spina bifida, won the 1977 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.
Known for
Filmography
- Mr. Mergler's Gift · Director
- To My Birthmother... · Director
- Just a Wedding · Director
- Children of Jerusalem: Gesho · Director
- Children of Jerusalem: Ibrahim · Director
- Children of Jerusalem: Yehudah · Director
- Children of Jerusalem: Asya · Director
- Children of Jerusalem: Neveen · Director
- Children of Jerusalem: Yacoub · Director
- Children of Jerusalem: Tamar · Director
- To a Safer Place · Director, Producer
- I Want to Be an Engineer · Director, Writer
- It's Just Better · Director
- The Way It Is · Director
- Julie O'Brien · Director
- Gurdeep Singh Bains · Director
- I'll Find a Way · Director
- Beautiful Lennard Island · Director
- Kevin Alec · Director
- My Name Is Susan Yee · Director
- My Friends Call Me Tony · Director