
Directing
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.

Local One
2025

Union
2024

Sanctuary
2020

David Harvey and the City
2020

The Hottest August
2019

A Debtors' Prison
2018

The Castle
2018

CamperForce
2017

The Prison in Twelve Landscapes
2016

World In A City
2016
Clear and No Screws
2015

Roads Through Palestine
2013

Land of Destiny
2010

Car Wash
2008
The Visible Will vs. the Invisible Wall
2007
Hard City Heart
2007
The Production of the World