Jennifer Abbott

Biography

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

Acting

2020

The Magnitude of All Things

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Self

1993

Skinned

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Production

2011

I Am

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1998

A Cow at My Table

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2020

The Magnitude of All Things

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Crew

1998

A Cow at My Table

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Directing

1993

Skinned

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2014

The Film That Buys the Cinema

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1998

A Cow at My Table

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2016

Us and Them

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2020

The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel

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2020

The Magnitude of All Things

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2003

The Corporation

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