CURRENTLY WORKING ON:
⇀ UNTITLED FAIRY CREEK FILM (2024, Director) - in post-production
Vérité feature documentary about Ada’itsx/the fairy creek BLOCKADE, a direct action climate frontline that became Canada’s largest act of civil disobedience.COMPLETED FILMS:
⇀ ABUNDANCE (2022, editor)- a short film overlapping an ancient sufi poem with a small farm experimenting with community agriculture.
⇀ What About Our Future? (2020, PRODUCER) - Is a short documentary film that chronicles a group of youth environmental activists ”The Sustainabiliteens” who organized one of the largest protests in Vancouver's history.
⇀ LOST NATION ROAD (2019, PRODUCER) - Spiritual activist Stephen Jenkinson and musician Gregory Hoskins craft a love letter to endings on the nights of grief and mystery tour.
AWARDS/achievements:
⇀ Recipient, Spring 2024 Canadian Creative Accelerator in LA & NY.
⇀ Recipient, 2023 DOCNYC Voices of Canada Program.
⇀ Participant, 2022 impact mentorship with story money impact
⇀ PARTICIPANT, 2021-2022 WHISTLER DOC LAB AT THE WHISTLER FILM FESTIVAl
⇀ PARTICIPANT, 2021-2022 story to action impact producing mentorship through story money impact
⇀ winner, 2021 Nigel Moore Award for Youth Programming at doxa documentary film festival for what about our future?
⇀ Recipient, 2018 Banff World Media Festival Diversity of Voices FellowshIP
⇀ Participant, 2017 Vancouver 30network
⇀ Nominee, 2014 Leo Award for 'Best screenwriting' in 'information or lifestyle series'
published/broadcasted IN:
Shaw TV
Simon Fraser University
alive Magazine
VICE Canada
Collective Evolution
Modern Agriculture
Daily Hive
+ more
in the media:
⇀ The Province - Video journalist secures $10K grant to produce Vancouver co-housing documentary
⇀ Vancouver Sun - Could collective living be the answer to Vancouver's housing crisis?
⇀ Vancouver Sun - Vancouver video journalist shoots for $10K grant with collective housing project
Jen Muranetz (she/her) is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and visual storyteller residing on the unceded and stolen Coast Salish territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish) and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) First Nations, in the place now known as Vancouver, BC.
Jen has more than twelve years’ experience creating dynamic, story-driven content. She is a director, producer, editor, cinematographer and video journalist, having been involved in the creation of hundreds of videos for broadcast, film and independent clients. Her films are character-driven and impact-focused, centred around human resiliency. Her previous works have screened in festivals such as DOXA, DOK Leipzig and Planet in Focus. Jen’s participated in a number of labs and pitch programs including ‘Voices of Canada’ at DOCNYC, 2021 Whistler Doc Lab, Story to Action impact producing mentorship, and Green Pitch at Planet in Focus.
Her recent completed films include What About Our Future? (2020, Producer), Lost Nation Road (2019, Producer) and Better Together (2017, Director). Jen’s work has been published and broadcasted on Shaw TV, VICE Canada, alive Magazine, Modern Agriculture, Zoomin.TV and Daily Hive. Some of her previous clients include Enchanted Expeditions, Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia.