Directing
Community Rating
6.1
TMDB estimate
Born
January 1, 1965 (age 61)
Born in
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.
Fire Weather
as Director, Writer, Producer
TBA
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Wilfred Buck
as Executive Producer
2024
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Swan Song
as Executive Producer
2023
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Summit '72
as Executive Producer
2022
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Into the Weeds
as Producer, Director, Writer
2022
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Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
as Director, Screenplay
2018
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Gotthard Base Tunnel, Gotthard, Switzerland
as Director
2018
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The Tragically Hip - Long Time Running
as Writer, Director
2017
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Kandahar Journals
as Technical Advisor
2015
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Watermark
as Director, Writer
2013
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Payback
as Director
2012
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Act of God
as Director, Producer
2009
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Capturing Reality
as Self
2008
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Manufactured Landscapes
as Director, Producer
2006
—The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia
as Director
2002
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Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles
as Director
1999
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