Payback

Director Jennifer Baichwal
Year 2011
Run Time 82min
Genre Documentary
Based on Atwood’s bestselling book Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth, this doc by award-winning director Baichwal is a sweeping examination of the notion of indebtedness.

Director

Jennifer Baichwal

Baichwal is an award-winning director who frequently collaborates with her partner, producer and cinematographer Nicholas de Pencier, on documentaries such as the CSA-winning trilogy Manufactured Landscapes, Watermark and Anthropocene (with Edward Burtynsky). Their other credits include The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia, Act of God, and Into the Weeds, among others. She has won 12 awards, including two CSAs.

Writer

Jennifer Baichwal

Producer

Ravida Din

Genre

Documentary

Interests

Asian Filmmaker, Female Filmmaker, Literary Adaptation, Social Justice & Politics

Original Language

English

Canadian Distributor

Mongrel Media