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Brett Story

Overview

Brett Story is a geographer and award-winning non-fiction filmmaker. Her films have screened at True/False, Oberhausen, Hot Docs, the Viennale, and Dok Leipzig, among other international festivals. Her second feature-length film, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes (2016) was awarded the Special Jury Prize at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and was a nominee for Best Canadian Feature Documentary at the Canadian Screen Awards. Her interests across the fields of documentary and critical theory are expansive, and include experimental cinema and essay films, politics and aesthetics, racial capitalism and Marxist political economy, and visual geography. Brett holds a PhD in geography from the University of Toronto and is the author of a forthcoming book titled Prison Land: Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal America from the University of Minnesota Press. She was a 2016 Sundance Art of Nonfiction Fellow and is a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow.

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Directing
2024 Union Directing Director 59
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2020 David Harvey and the City Directing Director N/A
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2019 The Hottest August Directing Director 58
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2018 A Debtors' Prison Directing Director N/A
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2018 The Castle Directing Director N/A
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2017 CamperForce Directing Director N/A
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2016 The Prison in Twelve Landscapes Directing Director 59
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2016 World In A City Directing Director N/A
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2013 Roads Through Palestine Directing Director N/A
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2010 Land of Destiny Directing Director N/A
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2008 Car Wash Directing Director N/A
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2007 Hard City Heart Directing Director N/A
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2007 The Visible Will vs. the Invisible Wall Directing Director N/A
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Writing
2016 The Prison in Twelve Landscapes Writing Writer 59
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2016 World In A City Writing Writer N/A
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Production
2019 The Hottest August Production Producer 58
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2018 A Debtors' Prison Production Producer N/A
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2018 The Castle Production Producer N/A
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2016 The Prison in Twelve Landscapes Production Producer 59
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2010 Land of Destiny Production Producer N/A
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2006 WAL-TOWN The Film Production Researcher N/A
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Camera
2013 Roads Through Palestine Camera Camera Operator N/A
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Editing
2020 David Harvey and the City Editing Editor N/A
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2007 Hard City Heart Editing Editor N/A
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