Jennifer Baichwal

Film director

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Who is Jennifer Baichwal?

Jennifer Baichwal is a Canadian documentary filmmaker. Born in Montreal, Quebec and raised in Victoria, British Columbia, Baichwal studied philosophy and theology at McGill University, writing her Master's thesis on Reinhold Niebuhr, before going into documentary filmmaking. She has won numerous awards for her films, including from the Genie Awards, the Toronto Film Critics Association Awards, the Toronto International Film Festival, the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival and the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

She is married to cinematographer Nick de Pencier, her partner in Mercury Films.

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Also known as
  • 제니퍼 바이크왈
  • 제니퍼 베이철
  • 제니퍼 바흐월
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Nationality
  • Canada
Profession
Education
  • McGill University
    Philosophy
  • Theology
Lived in
  • Montreal

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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