Brett Story is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, most noted for her 2016 film '' The Prison in Twelve Landscapes''. The film was awarded a $5,000 Special Jury Citation in the Best Canadian Feature Documentary category at the 2016

Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival The Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival is the largest documentary festival in North America. The event takes place annually in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The 27th edition of the festival took place online throughout May and Jun ...

, was the winner of the Colin Low Award for best Canadian documentary at the 2016 DOXA Documentary Film Festival, won the award for Best Canadian Documentary at the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2016, and received a

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nomination for Best Feature Length Documentary at the 5th Canadian Screen Awards in 2017. Her 2017 short documentary film ''CamperForce'' was adapted from Jessica Bruder's book ''

Nomadland ''Nomadland'' is a 2020 American drama film written, produced, edited and directed by Chloé Zhao. Based on the 2017 nonfiction book '' Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century'' by Jessica Bruder, it stars Frances McDormand a ...

'', and influenced

Chloé Zhao Chloé Zhao (born Zhao Ting; 31 March 1982) is a Chinese-born filmmaker. She is known primarily for her work on independent films. Zhao is the second of three women to win the Academy Award for Best Director for her film Nomadland. '' Songs ...

's 2020

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. She followed up in 2019 with '' The Hottest August''. In 2024, Story co-directed '' Union'' alongside Stephen T. Maing exploring the Amazon Labor Union. She is an assistant professor in film studies at the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public university, public research university whose main campus is located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park (Toronto), Queen's Park in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It was founded by ...

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