Minneapolis-based, Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Norah Shapiro specializes in documentary storytelling. Prior to her filmmaking career, she spent over a decade as a trial attorney. Her film Time for Ilhan, about the political rise of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, premiered at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival and remains available on multiple streaming platforms. Time for Ilhan won multiple audience awards, was nominated for a 2018 NAACP Image Award for Best TV Documentary, and received a 2018–2019 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing.
Ms. Shapiro’s new film Magic & Monsters received the IDA Enterprise Development (2019) and Production (2020) Grant for work at the intersection of journalism and cinema, and the Library of Congress/Ken Burns Prize for documentary film 2024 Runner-up award. Shapiro is a two-time McKnight Media Artist Fellow, and her past work has also received support from the Tribeca Film Institute, Catapult Film Fund, the Jerome Foundation, and others.
