Jennifer Baichwal
Directing
- Born
- January 1, 1965 (age 61) · 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. 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.
Known for
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
September 28, 2018
Manufactured Landscapes
September 9, 2006
Watermark
October 11, 2013
The Tragically Hip - Long Time Running
September 14, 2017
Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles
April 1, 1999
Act of God
August 2, 2009
Payback
March 16, 2012
Swan Song
September 22, 2023
Kandahar Journals
September 24, 2015
Into the Weeds
April 28, 2022
Wilfred Buck
March 18, 2024
Gotthard Base Tunnel, Gotthard, Switzerland
September 28, 2018
Behind the camera15
- 2024Wilfred Buck Executive Producer
- 2023Swan Song Executive Producer
- 2022Into the Weeds Director, Producer, Writer
- 2018Anthropocene: The Human Epoch Director, Screenplay
- 2018Gotthard Base Tunnel, Gotthard, Switzerland Director
- 2017The Tragically Hip - Long Time Running Writer, Director
- 2015Kandahar Journals Technical Advisor
- 2013Watermark Director, Writer
- 2012Payback Director
- 2009