Brett Story

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Female

Brett Story

Biography

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

Director

2024
Union

as Director

2019
The Hottest August

as Director

2018
The Castle

as Director

2018
A Debtors' Prison

as Director

2017
CamperForce

as Director

2016
World In A City

as Director

2015
2013
2010
Land of Destiny

as Director

2008
Car Wash

as Director

2007
Hard City Heart

as Director

Producer

2019
The Hottest August

as Producer

2018
A Debtors' Prison

as Producer

2018
The Castle

as Producer

2010
Land of Destiny

as Producer

2006
WAL-TOWN The Film

as Researcher

Writer

Editor

2007
Hard City Heart

as Editor

Camera

2013
Roads Through Palestine

as Camera Operator