Person
Jennifer Baichwal
Directing · Born 1965-01-01 · Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Biography
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. 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
Summit '72
Executive Producer
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
Director
Kandahar Journals
Technical Advisor
Capturing Reality
Self
Swan Song
Executive Producer
Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles
Director
Fire Weather
Director
Manufactured Landscapes
Director
Act of God
Producer
Wilfred Buck
Executive Producer
Filmography
- 2024Wilfred BuckExecutive Producer
- 2023Swan SongExecutive Producer
- 2022Summit '72Executive Producer
- 2022Into the WeedsDirector
- 2018Anthropocene: The Human EpochDirector
- 2018Gotthard Base Tunnel, Gotthard, SwitzerlandDirector
- 2017The Tragically Hip - Long Time RunningWriter
- 2015Kandahar JournalsTechnical Advisor
- 2013WatermarkDirector
- 2012PaybackDirector
- 2009Act of GodProducer
- 2008Capturing RealitySelf
- 2006Manufactured LandscapesDirector
- 2002The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' AppalachiaDirector
- 1999Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul BowlesDirector
- —Fire WeatherDirector
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