Jennifer Abbott was born on January 8,1965 and is a Sundance and Genie award-winning film director, writer, editor, producer and sound designer who specializes in social justice and environmental documentaries.
15 Facts About Jennifer Abbott
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Jennifer Abbott attended law school briefly before she quit to go to Emily Carr University of Art and Design where she studied for a few years before deciding to teach herself what she needed to know to become a filmmaker.
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Jennifer Abbott is a mother of three children, including twin daughters born in 2006 featured in her film The Magnitude of All Things.
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Jennifer Abbott is the sister of journalist Heather Abbott, the great, great-granddaughter of the first Canadian born Prime Minister of Canada John Abbott and the great, great-grandniece of Maude Abbott, one of Canada's first women doctors who had to challenge Bishop's University's men-only policy to be permitted to attend medical school, graduating in 1894.
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In 2020, Jennifer Abbott released the feature documentary The Magnitude of All Things about the emotional and psychological dimensions of the climate crisis which she wrote, directed, co-produced, edited, sound designed and narrated.
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Jennifer Abbott first started working in media with Sara Diamond and The Women's Labour History Project.
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In 2000, Jennifer Abbott collaborated with director Mark Achbar to create Two Brides and a Scalpel: Diary of a Lesbian Marriage.
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Jennifer Abbott continued her collaboration with Achbar in 2003 when they co-directed the critically acclaimed documentary film The Corporation.
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Jennifer Abbott completed editing the film Let It Ride: The Craig Kelly Story a week before having twin daughters in 2006 when she took a short break from filmmaking.
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Jennifer Abbott became involved with the documentary I Am after director Tom Shadyac saw The Corporation and invited Jennifer Abbott to work as the editor and executive producer on the film.
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Jennifer Abbott had an immediate connection with the film's subject matter, beliefs and core philosophy.
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Jennifer Abbott worked remotely on the film from her home in Canada.
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In 2013, Jennifer Abbott was commissioned by the Netherlands' Submarine Chanel to create an experimental short for a multimedia compilation based on a chapter from Steven Poole's book Unspeak and created the short film Brave New Minds constructed entirely from footage ripped from the internet.
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In 2015, Jennifer Abbott co-wrote and edited Sea Blind about the sea route opening along the northern pole due to climate change and melting ice as well as the detrimental environmental impacts of the shipping industry.
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Jennifer Abbott co-wrote, co-directed and edited Us and Them which features 4 homeless people living with addictions over the course of ten years.