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Director
Jennifer Baichwal
- Born January 1, 1965 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Jennifer Baichwal, director and producer, was born in Montréal and came to documentary filmmaking through studies in philosophy and theology at her hometown’s McGill University. She debuted 15 years ago with Looking You in the Back of the Head. Her first feature-length film, Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles (1998), was screened at a number of festivals and took Best Biography at the 1999 Hot Docs festival.
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In 1998 she and partner Nick de Pencier founded Mercury Films, and there she has produced, among other films, her own works The Holier It Gets and The True Meaning of Pictures, as well as the multiply-awarded festival favorite Manufactured Landscapes (about the work of artist Edward Burtynsky), one of the most noteworthy Canadian documentaries of the decade.
Known for
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch2018
Manufactured Landscapes2006
Watermark2013
The Tragically Hip - Long Time Running2017
Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles1999
Act of God2009
Payback2012
Swan Song2023
Filmography
- TBAFire WeatherFilmDirector, Writer, Producer
- TBAThe Holier It GetsFilmDirector
- 2024Wilfred BuckFilmExecutive Producer
- 2023Swan SongFilmExecutive Producer
- 2022Summit '72SeriesExecutive Producer
- 2022Into the WeedsFilmProducer, Director, Writer
- 2018Anthropocene: The Human EpochFilmDirector, Screenplay
- 2018Gotthard Base Tunnel, Gotthard, SwitzerlandFilmDirector
- 2017The Tragically Hip - Long Time RunningFilmWriter, Director
- 2015Kandahar JournalsFilmTechnical Advisor
- 2013WatermarkFilmDirector, Writer
- 2012PaybackFilmDirector
- 2009Act of GodFilmDirector, Producer
- 2008Capturing RealityFilmSelf
- 2006Manufactured LandscapesFilmDirector, Producer
- 2002The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' AppalachiaFilmDirector
- 1999Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul BowlesFilmDirector