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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.
Most Popular Brett Story Trailers
Total trailers found: 18
18 October 2024
Up against one of the most powerful companies on the planet, a group of Amazon workers embark on an unprecedented campaign to unionize their warehouse in Staten Island, New York.
01 January 2006
In this feature documentary, 6 student activists visit 36 Canadian towns to take on one giant corporation.
15 November 2019
Brett Story's visionary look at New York City as it braces for an uncertain future.
01 January 2007
A meditation, in blue, on the city in winter.
01 January 2008
In the spring of 2008, car wash workers throughout Los Angeles formed the Carwash Workers Organizing Committee of the United Steelworkers (USW), a precursor to eventual plans to unionize the informal workers of a multi-million dollar industry rampant with exploitation.
01 October 2018
In St. Louis County, the home of police-shooting victim Michael Brown, a practice with a long history has become systematic: the operation of modern-day debtors’ prisons.
01 January 2018
Formerly incarcerated people reassemble their lives at The Castle, a singular housing facility and a supportive home base created by The Fortune Society.
01 January 2016
World in a City is a portrait of Toronto and the steps Torontonians are taking to create a society th
01 January 2007
This 3-part musical odyssey features Montreal musician Alden Penner (formerly of the Unicorns) and Algerian refugee Abdelkader Belaouni, who is confined to his church-based sanctuary.
01 June 2020
David Harvey discusses the spatial aspects of capital, his work in the US, and the development of Hudson Yards.
07 April 2025
Six rural American communities are marked as candidates for an unthinkable fate: their land, a burial ground for 77,000 tons of nuclear waste.
12 November 2015
Clear and No Screws profiles SendAPackage, a wholesale warehouse where all of the items sold meet the 36-page list of rules regulating packages allowed into the New York prison system.
15 August 2013
Billowing smoke pours from a bus, as a fire crew attempts to douse the flames. Long, aching lines of motionless vehicles sit at one of Israel’s hated checkpoints.
01 October 2020
SANCTUARY follows Coloradans on multiple sides of a controversial issue as the Extreme Risk Protection Orders bill comes into law.
01 January 2010
A portrait of work, landscape and community in an era of globalization. In the rich fabric of Sarnia, Ontario's landscape— the bright sprawl of petrochemical plants, swollen hospital wards and crowded bars— one finds a microcosm of the 21st century.
13 January 2025
An exploration into the first days of the strike at two Amazon warehouses in New York City.
17 March 2016
More people are imprisoned in the United States at this moment than in any other time or place in history, yet the prison itself has never felt further away or more out of sight.
18 December 2017
For nearly a decade, Amazon has recruited thousands of RVers for a seasonal labor unit called CamperForce.
