Jennifer Baichwal
Jennifer Baichwal is a Canadian documentary filmmaker. Born in Montreal, Quebec and raised in Victoria, British Columbia,[1] Baichwal studied philosophy and theology at McGill University, writing her Master's thesis on Reinhold Niebuhr, before going into documentary filmmaking. She has won numerous awards for her films, including from the Genie Awards, the Toronto Film Critics Association Awards, the Toronto International Film Festival, the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.[1]
She is married to cinematographer Nick de Pencier,[2] her partner in Mercury Films.[3]
Films
- Looking You in the Back of the Head
- Let it Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles (1998)
- The Holier It Gets (2000)
- The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia (2002)
- Manufactured Landscapes (2006)
- Act of God (2009)
- Payback (2012)
- Watermark (co-directed with Edward Burtynsky) (2013)
References
- ^ a b "Jennifer Baichwal investigates lightning strikes in Act of God". The Georgia Straight, May 29, 2009.
- ^ "Interview: Jennifer Baichwal". NOW, April 27, 2009.
- ^ "Feel the electricity". CBC News, April 28, 2009.
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