Jenny Cartwright has been involved with documentary film production for over twenty years and has collaborated on projects shot around the globe. As a filmmaker, she is interested in the dynamics of power that shape our world. Her work tackles complex issues such as gentrification, class divide, sex work and feminist action.

 

As a sound artist and documentarist, she advocates in favour of broadening opportunities for public presentations of audio works and creative sound documentaries.

 

Her first audio documentary Debouttes! (2019) was selected at Longueur d’ondes, one of the most important radio and podcast festivals in Europe. Quels morceaux de nous la tempête a-t-elle emportés avec elle?, her second audio documentary, shed light on the mishandling of the COVID‑19 pandemic in Quebec’s residential and long-term care centres and received the first international NUMIX award for best immersive sound experience.

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Her first feature-length documentary, I Remember a Time When No One Jogged in This Neighbourhood, won the REAL award from the Association des réalisateurs et réalisatrices du Québec in the art & essai category.

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