Aidan Shipley
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Actor
- Director
![Matthew steps briefly into a diner and comes out to find that his young daughter Cassandra has vanished without a trace from the back of his truck. Her unsolved abduction destroys Matthew's once-happy relationship with his wife, Tina, who, haunted by mementos of Cassandra that appear mysteriously at her work, suspects her husband of foul play. Years later, when detectives Nicole and Jeffrey discover recent images of Cassandra online, Matthew risks everything to ensure his daughter's safe return -- and to save himself and Tina from the limbo of unrelenting despair.](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BOTk4NzgxMjk1N15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwNDYzMzU0MzE@._V1_QL75_UX500_CR0,47,500,281_.jpg)
Aidan Shipley is a Toronto based actor/filmmaker whose films have screened at TIFF and in competition internationally. Upon graduating from Ryerson University's film program in 2014, his thesis film, Dorsal, was awarded the A&E Short Filmmakers Award for best film by the National Screen Institute and was recently acquired by the CBC. He went on to co-write/direct the short film Boxing, which premiered at TIFF in 2015, followed by his first feature Cardinals, which premiered at TIFF in 2017 and has since screened at a variety of international festivals and cities including New York, Los Angeles & London. More recently he has shot and produced short documentaries for both NBC Left Field and The Marshal Project as well as winning a Canadian Screen Award for Best Directing in a Web Series or Program for a virtual reality film titled Deerbrook. In 2018 he produced the feature documentary A Girl Named C, which premiered at the Austin Film Festival. Currently he is developing his next feature as well as two narrative television series.