– Jen Muranetz is an award-winning visual storyteller and documentary filmmaker.
FILMS:
⇀ FAIRY CREEK (2024, Director)
Vérité feature documentary about Ada’itsx/the fairy creek BLOCKADE, a direct action climate frontline that became Canada’s largest act of civil disobedience.
⇀ ABUNDANCE (2022, editor)
short film overlapping an ancient sufi poem with a small farm experimenting with community agriculture.
⇀ What About Our Future? (2020, PRODUCER)
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:
⇀ Winner, Maine Outdoor Film Festival 2025 ‘Conservation Award Feature’ for ‘Fairy Creek’.
⇀ Winner, Leo Award 2025 ‘Best Music Score Feature Length Documentary’ for ‘Fairy Creek’.
⇀ NOMINEE, Leo Award 2025 ‘Best Cinematography Feature Length Documentary’ for ‘Fairy Creek’.
⇀ Winner, Planet in Focus 2024 ‘Best Canadian Feature Film’ for ‘Fairy Creek’.
⇀ Participant, Spring 2024 Canadian Creative Accelerator in LA & NY.
⇀ Participant, 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?
⇀ Participant, 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'
Jen Muranetz (she/her) is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and visual storyteller residing on unceded and stolen Coast Salish territories. She is a director, producer, editor, cinematographer and journalist, with 14+ years’ experience creating character-driven and impact-focused stories.
Her recent completed films include Fairy Creek (2024, director), What About Our Future? (2020, Producer), and Lost Nation Road (2019, Producer). Jen’s films have screened in festivals such as Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, DOXA, DOK Leipzig and Planet in Focus. She’s participated in a number of labs and pitch programs including the Canadian Creative Accelerator, DOCNYC Voices of Canada Roundtables, Whistler Film Festival Doc Lab, and Story to Action impact producing mentorship with SMI.
As a journalist, Jen has been involved in the creation of 700+ stories broadcast, print and independent clients. Her works have been published on Shaw TV, VICE Canada, alive Magazine, Modern Agriculture, and Daily Hive. Some of her previous clients include Enchanted Expeditions, Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia.