Person

Brett Story

Directing

Brett Story is a geographer and award-winning non-fiction filmmaker. Her films have screened at True/False, Oberhausen, Hot Docs, the Viennale, and Dok Leipzig, among other international festivals. Her second feature-length film, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (2016) was awarded the Special Jury Prize at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and was a nominee for Best Canadian Feature Documentary at the Canadian Screen Awards. Her interests across the fields of documentary and critical theory are expansive, and include experimental cinema and essay films, politics and aesthetics, racial capitalism and Marxist political economy, and visual geography. Brett holds a PhD in geography from the University of Toronto and is the author of a forthcoming book titled Prison Land: Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal America from the University of Minnesota Press. She was a 2016 Sundance Art of Nonfiction Fellow and is a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow.

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  The Castle

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  Car Wash

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  To Use a Mountain

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  Local One

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  Sanctuary

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  CamperForce

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  The Hottest August

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  Union

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  David Harvey and the City

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• The Visible Will vs. the Invisible Wall

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• 2025To Use a MountainExecutive Producer
• 2025Local OneDirector
• 2024UnionDirector
• 2020SanctuaryDirector
• 2020David Harvey and the CityDirector
• 2019The Hottest AugustDirector
• 2018A Debtors' PrisonProducer
• 2018The CastleDirector
• 2017CamperForceDirector
• 2016The Prison in Twelve LandscapesDirector
• 2016World In A CityWriter
• 2015Clear and No ScrewsDirector
• 2013Roads Through PalestineCamera Operator
• 2010Land of DestinyProducer
• 2008Car WashDirector
• 2007The Visible Will vs. the Invisible WallDirector
• 2007Hard City HeartDirector
• 2006WAL-TOWN The FilmResearcher
• —The Production of the WorldDirector