Shannon C. Griffin is a New York-based film editor whose work spans feature films, commercials, and music videos.

Born in Tokyo, Japan, Shannon moved to the US at just 3 months old. She then grew up around the world, living in Connecticut, Tianjin, Shanghai, and then Hawaii before graduating from Sarah Lawrence College in New York.

Her recent feature credits include ONE WOMAN ONE BRA (dir. Vincho Nchogu), which premiered at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival and won the Sutherland Award at the 2025 BFI London Film Festival. She cut the feature film IN TRANSIT (dir. Jaclyn Bethany), which premiered in competition at the Edinburgh Film Festival and Deauville American Film Festival, and later earned the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at NewFest. Shannon also edited the short film, YOUR OWN FLAVOR (dir. Alisha Ketry), winner of the Best Comedy Short Award at Palm Springs ShortFest 2025.

Shannon’s music video work has earned a spot on Pitchfork’s Top 20 Music Videos of 2019 (Doja Cat’s TIA TAMERA) and landed nominations at the 2024 CMT Awards (Kelsea Ballerini’s IF YOU GO DOWN (I’M GOIN’ DOWN TOO), 2020 MTV VMAs (Blink-182’s HAPPY DAYS) and 2020 CMT Awards (Kelsea Ballerini’s HOMECOMING QUEEN?).

Shannon has cut commercials and branded content for clients such as Nissan, Roman, United Airlines, On Running, Disney, Chipotle, and many more.

Additionally, Shannon is a 2024 Film Independent Project Involve editor fellow.

Outside of the edit bay, Shannon spends her free time studying Thai, her parents' native language.

Let’s cut together!
shannoncgriffin15@gmail.com