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Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
About Jennifer Abbott
- Jennifer Abbott is a Canadian director and editor, who specializes in social justice and environmental documentaries.
- She is best known as the co-director and editor of the documentary, The Corporation (2003), which examines large corporations in the 21st century.
- The documentary received 26 awards, including a Sundance Film Festival award, a Genie for best documentary and a top ten film of the year by the Toronto International Film Festival - though disqualified from the Oscars as an Ontario broadcast preceded the LA theatrical release. Most recently, Abbott co-wrote and edited Sea Blind [1], about the sea route opening along the melting Arctic Ocean and the price of shipping our stuff.
- It screened at the 2015 Paris climate talks and is making the rounds to the ports of Europe projected onto walls of shipping containers. Abbott is the co-writer, co-director and editor of Us and Them [2] about four homeless and addicted street people shot over the course of 10 years and the Executive Producer and Editor of I Am [3].
- She was commissioned to create the short film Brave New Minds for the interactive website Unspeak by Amsterdam's Submarine Channel [4].
- Abbott's first feature documentary, A Cow at My Table (1998), explores contemporary Western attitudes to livestock and meat production.
- Her early work includes the experimental short Skinned screened at NY's Museum of Modern Art [5].
- She has taught at the Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design in Vancouver and lives on a permaculture farm on a small island on Canada's West Coast.
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