Shalom Almond
Australian documentary filmmaker
Shalom Almond is an Australian documentary filmmaker. Her first feature documentary was The Love Market (2009), about the girls living on the street in Vietnam. She is especially known for two documentary films about women in the Adelaide Women's Prison, Prisoners and Pups (2018), and Songs Inside (2024), which won several awards.
Early life and education
Shalom Almond was born around 1978.
She attended Blackwood High School in the Adelaide Hills, and studied filmmaking at the University of South Australia, graduating in 1998/1999, when she was just 20.
Almond lived in Belair as a young woman.
Career
Film
Almond is a writer, director, and producer who has been working in the industry in Adelaide, South Australia, since she was 20 years old, having just graduated from university.
In 1998, a short film made by Almond and filmmaking partner Tamsin Sharp, Scrabble, won Best
Script and the Film Makers' Choice awards, and was named the Most Outstanding Film at the South Australian Young Film Makers Festival.
In June 1999, Almond, along with David Lipschitz and Tamsin Sharp, made a documentary film to accompany an exhibition of Jewish history in Adelaide in the Migration Museum, Tree of Life. The film was screened on ABC Television's Snapshots as well as Channel 9's Postcards series.
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