Anthropocene: The Human Epoch

Jennifer Baichwal has been directing and producing documentaries for over twenty years. Among her many films, installations and lens-based projects, she has made ten feature documentaries, which have won multiple awards nationally and internationally. Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles won an International Emmy in 1999. The Holier It Gets, a documentary filmed in Canada and India, won Best Cultural and Best Independent Canadian Documentary at Hot Docs Film Festival in 2000 and won Gemini awards for best writing, directing, and editing in a documentary series. Manufactured Landscapes, made with Edward Burtynsky and Nicholas de Pencier, won TIFF’s Best Canadian Film and Al Gore’s Reel Current Award. Act of God, about the metaphysical effects of being struck by lightning, opened the Hot Docs festival in May 2009. Payback, a National Film Board-backed adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s Massey Lectures produced by Ravida Din, premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2012 and was released in Canada and the U.S. that spring. She re-partnered with Burtynsky and de Pencier for the feature documentary Watermark, which won the Toronto Film Critics Association prize for Best Canadian Film in January 2014. Most recently, Baichwal and de Pencier were co-directors of Long Time Running, a feature documentary on The Tragically Hip’s 2016 summer tour. Baichwal sits on the board of Swim Drink Fish Canada, and is a member of the Ryerson University School of Image Arts Advisory Council. She has been a Director of the Board of the Toronto International Film Festival since 2016, and is passionate ambassador of their Share Her Journey campaign, a five-year commitment to increasing participation, skills, and opportunities for women behind and in front of the camera.