Shannon Germaine
Towson, Maryland
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Shannon Germaine began filmmaking in 2019 when she launched her YouTube Channel, Nix the Norm, and realized the power that filmmaking has to transform society, educate others, and improve our environment.
Her first documentary film, Plastic Crisis: Our Oceans in Peril, won First Prize in the 2021 One Earth Young Filmmakers Contest and was selected for numerous film festivals including the All-American High School Film Festival where it was viewed at the AMC Empire 25 Theater in Times Square, New York City. Her next film, The Ripple, won Grand Prize in the 2021 Redford Center Stories Challenge. With her documentary, Code Red: The Clean Air Act’s Battle Against Climate Change, she became the youngest filmmaker to win first prize at the college level for the 2022 One Earth Young Filmmakers Contest at just 15 years old while she was dual enrolled in high school and college.
Her films have also won awards from C-SPAN, Planet 911, Academy of Cinematic Arts, the Maryland Children’s Environmental Film Festival, 60-Second Short Film Festival, and the Climate Changemaker Teen Film Festival. She has served on the Youth Advisory Council for the One Earth Collective and on a panel of judges that included Robert Redford for the 2022 Redford Center Stories Challenge. She was proud to be selected as the opening presenter for the Greenpeace Data Activist Co-op in 2022, and as a panelist on the Redford Center Meet the Moment Series and the Mike Nowak Show. She graduated high school at sixteen years old and is expecting her Bachelor of Science degree in 2026.