Brett Story
Brett Story is a filmmaker and writer based in Toronto. Her films have screened internationally at festivals such as CPH-DOX, the Viennale, SXSW, True/False, Hot Docs, and Sheffield Doc/Fest. Her feature films include 2016’s award-winning The Prison in Twelve Landscapes and 2019’s The Hottest August. Brett is the author of the book Prison Land (2019) and co-editor of the forthcoming volume, Digital Life in the Global City. She has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Sundance Documentary Institute, and was named one of Variety’s 10 Documentary Filmmakers to Watch in 2019. Brett holds a PhD in geography from the University of Toronto and is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Image Arts at Ryerson University.