Pepita Ferrari


Pepita Ferrari was a Canadian filmmaker. In 1994 she began her long-standing relationship with the National Film Board of Canada, who produced seven of her films, five of which are available to stream online in both English and French. 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. Ferrari focused on the three most prominent artists from the group: Prudence Heward, Sarah Robertson and Anne Savage. Her 2010 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. Ferrari has also wrote for Point of View, a Canadian magazine about documentary film and photography.

Filmography

YearFilmDirectorProducerWriterNotes
2011SourceYesShort
2008Capturing RealityYesDocumentary
2006Canticum CanticorumYes
2004The Unsexing of Emma EdmondsYesYesYesTV Movie
2001Dogs with Jobs: Willy & RopeYesTV Series documentary
2001Dogs with Jobs: Kavic & MasYesYesTV Series documentary
2001Dogs with Jobs: Petro & MelYesTV Series documentary
1997The Petticoat ExpeditionsYesYes
1997The Petticoat Expeditions: Part One: Anna JamesonYesYesShort
1997The Petticoat Expeditions: Part Two: Frances HopkinsYesYesShort
1997The Petticoat Expeditions: Part Three: Countess of AberdeenYesYesShort
1994By Woman's HandYesYesYesDocumentary about Beaver Hall Group