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.
Manufactured Landscapes
Act of God
Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles
The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia
Payback
Capturing Reality
Watermark
Kandahar Journals
The Tragically Hip - Long Time Running
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
Gotthard Base Tunnel, Gotthard, Switzerland
Into the Weeds
Swan Song
Wilfred Buck
