Dawn Her Dad and the Tractor announced as winner of the 2022 Nova Scotia Masterworks Award

Shelley Thompson’s directorial debut tells the story of a trans daughter’s homecoming.

When first-time feature director Shelley Thompson debuted her flick Dawn, Her Dad and the Tractor at the 2021 FIN Atlantic International Film Festival, it was her first time seeing the final cut—and she was feeling the stakes of the moment. Back then, she told The Coast that “I think everybody’s making films to change the world, on some level…