Pepita Ferrari (1952 - 2018) was a

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filmmaker. In 1994 she began her long-standing relationship with the

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, who produced seven of her films, five of which are available to stream online in both English and French. Her directorial debut ''By Woman's Hand'' was a documentary about the

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, a group of

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painters, who were associated with the

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. Ferrari focused on the three most prominent artists from the group: Prudence Heward, Sarah Robertson and Anne Savage. Her 2010 documentary '' Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary'' features well-known living documentary filmmakers such as

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and

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watching their own films and discussing the technical and ethical choices that guided their work. The film sets out to answer the question - “What is documentary?” - by taking the viewer through the process of creating a documentary from initial idea to final edit. Ferrari also wrote for ''

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'', a Canadian magazine about documentary film and photography. Pepita Ferrari passed away at her home in Lac Brome, Quebec on December 30, 2018.

Filmography

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