Director
Jennifer Baichwal
61 years · Montreal, Quebec, Canada · 10 films
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.
Best known for
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
2018 · Director, Screenplay
On Kanopy
Manufactured Landscapes
2006 · Director, Producer
On Plex
Watermark
2013 · Director, Writer
On Plex
The Tragically Hip - Long Time Running
2017 · Writer, Director
On Fawesome
Capturing Reality
2008 · Self
On Philo
Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles
1999 · Director
Filmography 10
Into the Weeds
2022 · Producer, Director
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
2018 · Director, Screenplay
On Kanopy
Gotthard Base Tunnel, Gotthard, Switzerland
2018 · Director
The Tragically Hip - Long Time Running
2017 · Writer, Director
On Fawesome
Watermark
2013 · Director, Writer
On Plex
Payback
2012 · Director
On Kanopy
Act of God
2009 · Director, Producer
Capturing Reality
2008 · Self
On Philo
Manufactured Landscapes
2006 · Director, Producer
On Plex
Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles
1999 · Director