1952 – 2018
In 1994, Pepita Ferrari began her long-standing relationship with the National Film Board of Canada, who have produced seven of her films. Her directorial debut By Woman’s Hand was a documentary about the Beaver Hall Group, a group of Canadian women painters who were associated with the Group of Seven.
Her 2010 documentary Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary features well-known living documentary filmmakers such as Nick Broomfield, Werner Herzog, Kim Longinotto and Errol Morris watching their own films and discussing the technical and ethical choices that guided their work. The film sets out to answer the question – “What is documentary?” – by taking the viewer through the process of creating a documentary from initial idea to final edit. Starting in 2009, Ferrari began writing for Point of View, a Canadian magazine about documentary and independent film, published by the Documentary Organization of Canada.
Click here for a personal tribute to Pepita by fellow WIDC alumna Naomi McCormak and a professional tribute from the National Film Board of Canada.