Nicholas de Pencier Archives

Toronto Film Critics name Anthropocene the year’s best Canadian film

But co-directors Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier surprised the room by giving away the $100,000 cash prize

Jan 09, 2019

Toronto film critics choose Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma as the year’s best picture

The Toronto Film Critics Association added to the chorus hailing Roma as best picture, echoing identical wins for the Netflix film from critics organizations in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and San Francisco.

Dec 10, 2018

Radheyan Simonpillai

Nicholas de Pencier

TIFF’s Canada’s Top Ten list skews a lot younger this year

The annual anointment of Canadian cinema focuses on coming-of-age stories in a big way – and leaves out more than a few of the usual suspects

Dec 05, 2018

Norman Wilner

Nicholas de Pencier

Review: Anthropocene: The Human Epoch is both meditative and urgent

Third film in an environmental doc trilogy that began with Manufactured Landscapes ups the ante with surreal and psyched-out visuals

Sep 26, 2018

Kevin Ritchie

Nicholas de Pencier

Anthropocene reveals the scale of Earth’s existential crisis

Part AGO show and part documentary, Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier's project captures the landscapes we destroy in order to live

Sep 26, 2018

Kevin Ritchie

Nicholas de Pencier