About the speaker
For December's theme 'invisible' we are excited to showcase the award-winning film director, writer, editor, producer, & sound designer Jennifer Abbott.
Jennifer Abbott is a Sundance and Genie award-winning filmmaker dedicated to filmmaking as art, philosophy and activism. She is best known as the Co-Director and Editor of THE CORPORATION, still the top grossing and most awarded documentary in Canadian history and credited as one of the top ten films to inspire Occupy Wall Street. In 2020, Abbott released two feature documentaries: THE NEW CORPORATION; THE UNFORTUNATELY NECESSARY SEQUEL (co-director and supervising editor) and THE MAGNITUDE OF ALL THINGS (writer, director, editor, sound design and co-producer). THE MAGNITUDE OF ALL THINGS explores ecological grief and how we face and accept the reality of climate catastrophe while solidifying our determination to engage in the only thing we can now do – resist. It’s been received with critical acclaim and over 10 awards from South Korea, Italy, France, California, Canada & the USA. While her primary interests lie in writing and directing films about the most urgent social, political and environmental issues of the day, Abbott almost always edits and sound designs her own films. She lives on Canada’s West Coast with her twin teenage daughters and son.
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