Brett Story
Brett Story is a geographer and award-winning non-fiction filmmaker. 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 is the author of a forthcoming book titled Prison Land: Mapping Carceral Power across Neoliberal America from the University of Minnesota Press. She was a 2016 Sundance Art of Nonfiction Fellow and is a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow.
| Film | Credit |
|---|---|
 Local One2025 · Director | Director |
 Union2024 · Director | Director |
 Sanctuary2020 · Director | Director |
 David Harvey and the City2020 · Director | Director |
 The Hottest August2019 · Director, Producer | Director, Producer |
 A Debtors' Prison2018 · Producer, Director | Producer, Director |
 The Castle2018 · Director, Producer | Director, Producer |
 CamperForce2017 · Director | Director |
 The Prison in Twelve Landscapes2016 · Director, Writer, Producer | Director, Writer, Producer |
 World In A City2016 · Writer, Director | Writer, Director |
| CClear and No Screws2015 · Director | Director |
 Roads Through Palestine2013 · Director | Director |
 Land of Destiny2010 · Producer, Director | Producer, Director |
 Car Wash2008 · Director | Director |
| TThe Visible Will vs. the Invisible Wall2007 · Director | Director |
| HHard City Heart2007 · Director | Director |
| TThe Production of the WorldDirector, Producer | Director, Producer |