Director
Brett Story
13 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 13
Local One
2025 · Director
Union
2024 · Director
On Kanopy
Sanctuary
2020 · Director
David Harvey and the City
2020 · Editor, Director
The Hottest August
2019 · Director, Producer
On Fandor
A Debtors' Prison
2018 · Producer, Director
On DocAlliance Films
The Castle
2018 · Director, Producer
CamperForce
2017 · Director
The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
2016 · Director, Writer
On Fandor
World In A City
2016 · Writer, Director
Roads Through Palestine
2013 · Director
Land of Destiny
2010 · Producer, Director
On Hoopla
Car Wash
2008 · Director
On History Vault