Contains an award in the shape of a woman from the XXXIII Festival Internazionale del Cinema di Salerno award.

Contains a plaque celebrating "To My Birthmother" from the Columbus International Film & Video Festival, as well as correspondence from the NFB pertaining to the award.

Contains "To a Safer Place" and "We are Engineers" awards (certificates) from American Film & Video Festival, John Muir Medical Film Festival, Festival de l'Audiovisuel Quebecois, and an Italian film festival.

Contains scenes from World Through Women's Eyes III International Forum of Filmmakers in Mongolia, including shots of attendees and speakers, and scenes from conference. Also includes corresponding negatives and a CD of photographs (likely duplicates of prints) as well as a DVD containing an idea for a film project (not Shaffer's), an official conference program, and a printed schedule.

Contains materials relating to Oscar Celebrates Women & the Movies (a celebration which took place in Los Angeles in 1993 and featured Shaffer for her 1978 win), including invitations and correspondence from the Academy Awards relating to the celebration. Also includes invitations to a luncheon at the Canada Consul General's house celebrating the award, and copies of press related to the luncheon. Some "65 Years of the Oscar" invitations and correspondence are also included in the file.