Brett Story
Appears in 19 titles

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.

Filmography

The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
The Hottest August
5.7
The Hottest August
2019
Director
Union
7.5
Union
2024
Director
Car Wash
7.0
Car Wash
2008
Director
The Castle
The Castle
2018
Director
Land of Destiny
Land of Destiny
2010
Director
Hard City Heart
2007
Director
CamperForce
CamperForce
2017
Director
David Harvey and the City
David Harvey and the City
2020
Director
A Debtors' Prison
A Debtors' Prison
2018
Director
Roads Through Palestine
Roads Through Palestine
2013
Director
World In A City
World In A City
2016
Director
Clear and No Screws
2015
Director
Local One
Local One
2025
Director
Sanctuary
Sanctuary
2020
Director
The Production of the World
Director