Brett Story
Assistant Professor
Guggenheim Fellow
The Creative School
School of Image Arts
Toronto, Ontario
brett.story@torontomu.ca
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(416) 979-5000 ext. 556854
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Bio/Research
Brett Story is a geographer and non-fiction filmmaker based out of Toronto. 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 Spe...
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Bio/Research
Brett Story is a geographer and non-fiction filmmaker based out of Toronto. 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 was a 2016 Sundance Institute Art of Nonfiction Fellow. She is the author of a forthcoming book titled The Prison Out of Place: Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal America.
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