Jennifer Baichwal

Jennifer Baichwal director and producer was born in Montréal and came to documentary filmmaking through studies in philosophy and theology at her hometowns McGill University She debuted 15 years ago with Looking You in the Back of the Head Her first featurelength 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 multiplyawarded festival favorite Manufactured Landscapes about the work of artist Edward Burtynsky one of the most noteworthy Canadian documentaries of the decade