
Known for
Directing
Born
January 1, 1965 (age 61)
Birthplace
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 Edwa...
TBA
Director, Writer, Producer
2024
Executive Producer
2023
Executive Producer
2022
2022
Producer, Director, Writer
2018
Director, Screenplay
2018
2017
Writer, Director
2015
Technical Advisor
2013
Director, Writer
2012
Director
2009
Director, Producer
2008
as Self
2006
Director, Producer
2002
1999