Jennifer Abbott
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jennifer Abbott (born c. 1965) is a Canadian director, cinematographer and editor, best known as a documentary maker. Her first feature documentary, A Cow at My Table (1998), explores contemporary Western attitudes to livestock and meat production. More recently, she served as co-director and editor of the widely acclaimed documentary, The Corporation (2003), which critically examines large corporations in the modern world. That film won numerous international film awards, including a Genie for best documentary, an audience award from the Sundance Film Festival, and a Top Ten Films of the Year designation from the Toronto International Film Festival. Her previous work includes the experimental short Skinned, and as editor for Two Brides and a Scalpel: Diary of a Lesbian Marriage (1999). She is also the editor of the book Making Video 'In': The Contested Ground of Alternative Video on the West Coast. She has taught at the Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design in Vancouver. She lives on Galiano Island in British Columbia, Canada. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jennifer Abbott, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
- Known for
- Editing
- Born
- Canada
Known for
- The Corporation (2003) — Editor
- I Am (2010) — Executive Producer
- The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel (2020) — Director
- Two Brides and a Scalpel: Diary of a Lesbian Marriage (2000) — Editor
- Sea Blind, the Price of Shipping Our Stuff (2016) — Editor
- The Magnitude of All Things (2020) — Self
- Skinned (1993)
- The Film That Buys the Cinema (2014) — Director
- A Cow at My Table (1998) — Editor
- Us and Them (2016) — Director
- Out of the Poison Tree (2008) — Editor
- Let it Ride: The Craig Kelly story (2006) — Editor