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Brett Story

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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.

Known For

The Prison in Twelve Landscapes

66%

Director

2016

Union

77%

Director

2024

The Hottest August

57%

Director

2019

Car Wash

70%

Director

2008

To Use a Mountain

Executive Producer

2025

Local One

Director

2025

Sanctuary

Director

2020

David Harvey and the City

Director

2020

To Use a Mountain

Executive Producer

2025

Local One

Director

2025

Union

77%

Director

2024

Sanctuary

Director

2020

David Harvey and the City

Director

2020

David Harvey and the City

Editor

2020

The Hottest August

57%

Director

2019

The Hottest August

57%

Producer

2019

A Debtors' Prison

Producer

2018

A Debtors' Prison

Director

2018

The Castle

Director

2018

The Castle

Producer

2018

CamperForce

Director

2017

The Prison in Twelve Landscapes

66%

Director

2016

The Prison in Twelve Landscapes

66%

Writer

2016

The Prison in Twelve Landscapes

66%

Producer

2016

World In A City

Writer

2016

World In A City

Director

2016

Clear and No Screws

Director

2015

Roads Through Palestine

Camera Operator

2013

Roads Through Palestine

Director

2013

Land of Destiny

Director

2010

Land of Destiny

Producer

2010

Car Wash

70%

Director

2008

Hard City Heart

Director

2007

Hard City Heart

Editor

2007

The Visible Will vs. the Invisible Wall

Director

2007

WAL-TOWN The Film

Researcher

2006

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