Jennifer Baichwal has been directing and producing documentaries for twenty years. Her films have played all over the world and have won awards nationally and internationally. Her work includes: Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles, which won an International Emmy in 1999; Manufactured Landscapes, about the work of artist Edward Burtynsky, which was released in twelve countries; and Act of God, about the metaphysical effects of being struck by lightning, which opened the Canadian Hot Docs Film Festival in May 2009. Payback, an adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s Massey Lectures, produced by Ravida Din and the National Film Board of Canada, premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2012 and was released in Canada and the United States that spring. Watermark (co-directed by Edward Burtynsky, and produced and filmed by Nick de Pencier) is a feature documentary film about human interaction with water around the world; it premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2013 and won the Toronto Film Critics’ Association prize for Best Canadian Film 2014 and the Canadian Media Awards prize for Best Documentary 2014. It is currently on release in a number of countries.