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Jennifer Baichwal Biography
Birth Name:Jennifer Baichwal
Birth Place:Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Profession Director, Producer, Writer, Assistant director
Fast Facts
- Has received the Jury Prize at the 2007 RiverRun International Film Festival
- In 2007, she was awarded the Genie Award for Best Documentary
- Was nominated for the 2012 Sundance Film Festival World Cinema award
- Won the 2003 Gemini Award for Best Arts Documentary
- Earned her Master's degree before deciding to become a filmmaker
- Attended McGill University, where she studied philosophy
- Is widely recognized for her work on documentaries
Awards
- 1999Genie-Best Feature Length Documentary: nominated
- 1999Jury Award-Best Documentary: nominated
- 2000Gemini-Best Direction in a Documentary Series: winner
- 2007Genie-Best Documentary: winner
- 2007Best World Documentary-: nominated
- 2007Jury Prize-Best Documentary: winner
- 2007Grand Jury Prize-World Cinema - Documentary: nominated
- 2008Cinema Eye Honors Award-Outstanding Achievement in an International Feature Film: nominated
- 2008Cinema Eye Audience Choice Prize-: nominated
- 2008Independent Spirit Award-Best Documentary: nominated
- 2012Grand Jury Prize-World Cinema - Documentary: nominated
- 2013Rogers Award-Best Canadian Film: winner
- 2014Canadian Screen Award-Ted Rogers Best Feature Length Documentary Award: winner
- 2014DGC Team Award-Allan King Award For Excellence in Documentary: winner
- 2014Depth of Field Competition-: nominated
- 2017Best Canadian Feature Film-: nominated
- 2017People's Choice Award-Documentary: nominated
- 2018Excellence in Documentary-Allan King Award for Excellence in Documentary: winner
- 2018Rogers Award-Best Canadian Film: winner
- 2018Best Canadian Feature Film-: nominated
- 2019Canadian Screen Award-Ted Rogers Best Feature Length Documentary Award: winner
- 2019Global Health Competition-Best Film: nominated
- 2019Critics' Choice Documentary Award-Best Narration: nominated
- 2019Excellence in Documentary-Allan King Award for Excellence in Documentary: winner
- 2019Jury Award-Best International Documentary: nominated
- 2019Green Dox-: nominated
- 2019Documentary Award-Best International Feature Documentary: nominated
- 2019Pare Lorentz Award - Honorable Mention-: winner
- 2019Best Testimony on Nature-: winner
- 2019Documentary Award-: nominated
- 2019International Award-: nominated
- 2025Canadian Screen Award-Best Feature Length Documentary: nominated