Brett Story
**Brett Story** is a filmmaker and writer based in Toronto. Her films have screened internationally at festivals such as CPH-DOX, the Viennale, SXSW, True/False, Hot Docs, and Sheffield Doc/Fest. Her feature films include 2016’s award-winning *The Prison in Twelve Landscapes* and 2019’s *The Hottest August*. Brett is the author of the book *Prison Land* (2019) and co-editor of the forthcoming volume, *Digital Life in the Global City*. She has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Sundance Documentary Institute, and was named one of Variety’s 10 Documentary Filmmakers to Watch in 2019. Brett holds a PhD in geography from the University of Toronto and is currently an Assistant Professor in the School of Image Arts at Ryerson University.