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Jennifer Baichwal
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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. S…
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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.
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2024
Wilfred Buck
Movie Executive Producer
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2023
Swan Song
Movie Executive Producer
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2022
Summit '72
TV show Executive Producer
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2022
Into the Weeds
Movie Director
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2018
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
Movie Director
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2018
Gotthard Base Tunnel, Gotthard, Switzerland
Movie Director
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2017
The Tragically Hip - Long Time Running
Movie Writer
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2015
Kandahar Journals
Movie Technical Advisor
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2013
Watermark
Movie Director
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2012
Payback
Movie Director
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2009
Act of God
Movie Director
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2008
Capturing Reality
Movie Self
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2006
Manufactured Landscapes
Movie Director
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2002
The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia
Movie Director
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1999
Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles
Movie Director
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Fire Weather
Movie Director
