Brett Story
Brett Story is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, most noted for her 2016 film The Prison in Twelve Landscapes. The film was awarded a $5,000 Special Jury Citation in the Best Canadian Feature Documentary category at the 2016 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, was the winner of the Colin Low Award for best Canadian documentary at the 2016 DOXA Documentary Film Festival, won the award for Best Canadian Documentary at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2016, and received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017. Her 2017 short documentary film CamperForce was adapted from Jessica Bruder's book Nomadland, and influenced Chloé Zhao's 2020 film adaptation.
Brett Story
- Born
- 1979
- Occupation
- film director · documentary filmmaker · university teacher
- Education
- University of Toronto · University of Oxford · McGill University
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship
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She followed up in 2019 with The Hottest August. In 2024, Story co-directed Union alongside Stephen T. Maing exploring the Amazon Labor Union. She is an assistant professor in film studies at the Cinema Studies Institute, part of Innis College at the University of Toronto.
In September 2025, Story signed an open pledge with Film Workers for Palestine pledging not to work with Israeli film institutions "that are implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people."
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- 1.Scott Tobias, "Film Review: ‘The Prison in Twelve Landscapes’". Variety, March 4, 2016.
- 2.Norman Wilner, "Hot Docs 2016: And the winners are...". Now, May 10, 2016.
- 3.Daniele Alcinii, "'Cameraperson,' 'Twelve Landscapes' take DOXA prizes". RealScreen, May 16, 2016.
- 4.Craig Takeuchi, "Local filmmaker Kevan Funk's Hello Destroyer leads Vancouver Film Critics Circle awards for Canadian films". The Georgia Straight, January 10, 2017.
- 5.Victoria Ahearn, "Xavier Dolan film and ’Orphan Black’ lead Canadian Screen Award nominations". London Free Press, January 17, 2017.
- 6.Eric Kohn, "‘Nomadland’ Review: Frances McDormand and Chloé Zhao Create Magic in a Lyrical Road Movie". IndieWire, September 11, 2020.
- 7.Peter Debruge, "‘The Hottest August’: Film Review ". Variety, December 21, 2019.
- 8.D'Alessandro, Anthony. Sundance Unveils Packed 2024 Lineup That Includes A.I., Pedro Pascal, Kristen Stewart, Satan, Devo & Steven Yeun. Deadline Hollywood. December 6, 2023.
- 9.Film Workers Pledge to End Complicity. Film Workers For Palestine.
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