Faculty member, Brett Story's documentary, The Production of the World has been selected for the upcoming Docs-In-Progress - Canadian Showcase at the Marché du Film, the Cannes Film Festival’s international industry market. Docs-In-Progress is a pitch event presenting feature-length documentary projects at an advanced stage of editing to an audience of international buyers, distributors, festival programmers, and sales agents.
The Marché du Film will take place in Cannes from May 13 to 21. 2025.
Directed and produced by Brett Story, The Production of the World is an archival film about artists and activists in the 1950s caught up in the cultural Cold War. At once a spy thriller about the CIA infiltration of the art world, and a fascinating biography of the writer most responsible for helping us decode images, John Berger, The Production of the World offers a timely archival investigation into the battlegrounds of culture. The enigmatic and prolific John Berger is a guide to this period, raising the film’s most probing and contested question: what is the value of art in turbulent political times?
Congratulations, Brett!