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About
We make music, films, and other creative stuff.
Last Songbird Productions is a Vancouver-based film production company founded by award-winning filmmaker and Guggenheim Fellow Shannon Walsh. The company develops and produces documentary and fiction features, short films, VR works, and music videos, with a focus on innovative storytelling and bold, underrepresented voices.
Current projects include the fiction feature Without Witness, short fiction film Intimacies, the animated short documentary Mayisela, and music videos. Previous works include the feature documentary Illusions of Control (2019), VR short Disappearance: Hong Kong Stories (2018), the short documentary Matsutake Hunters (2019) and music videos by the artist Little Scream.
Now
Current projects
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Short Fiction2027
Intimacies
A woman confronts the man she is falling for as he pulls away — not with cruelty, but with an inability to receive her. Desperate to understand what she couldn’t in the moment, she recreates the encounter with a sex worker.
A film by Shannon Walsh. With Lori Triolo, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine and Dane Schioler.
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Animated Short Doc SeriesComing 2026
Mayisela
Simphiwe Mayisela is a cybersecurity specialist at Johannesburg’s Public Investment Corporation when he stumbles into the centre of a massive pension fund scandal. Caught between his CEO and the police, he does what he believes is right — and loses everything. Based on the graphic novel of the same name, Mayisela is a story about what it costs to tell the truth in a system designed to bury it.
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Fiction FeatureIn development
Without Witness
A new fiction feature, now in development at Last Songbird.
Selected work
Past projects
Physician, Heal Thyself
A searingly intimate portrait of the celebrated expert on addiction, stress, and trauma, Dr. Gabor Maté. Physician, Heal Thyself follows Gabor’s life’s journey, from his start as a young contrarian to a contemporary icon.
Dir. Asher Penn
Illusions of Control
A meditation on resilience in the face of disaster, following five women who have lived through major crises and built surprising new communities in the ruins.
Dir. Shannon Walsh
More →Matsutake Hunters
The forest holds many mysteries. We follow some unique foragers as they hunt for the elusive and highly prized Japanese Matsutake mushroom, also known as the Pine Mushroom, in Northern British Columbia.
Dir. Shannon Walsh
Disappearance: Hong Kong Stories
Disappearance is a 360 VR non-fiction diving into the stories of three people who take us to places important to them in Hong Kong.
Dir. Shannon Walsh
Music Videos
Including work for Montreal-based artist Little Scream.
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Music
Innovative & unheard voices
Last Songbird Productions is dedicated to bringing forth innovative and unheard voices. Little Scream also lives here.
Little Scream — Love as a Weapon (Official Music Video)