Nettie Wild

A recipient of this year’s Governor General’s Award in Media Arts, Nettie Wild is recognized as one of Canada’s leading documentary filmmakers. Her production credits include Koneline: Our Land Beautiful (2016), FIX: The Story of an Addicted City (2002), and A Place Called Chiapas (1998). Wild’s more recent work embraces digital art installations. She recently directed UNINTERRUPTED, projecting images of wild salmon onto Vancouver’s Cambie bridge. The international art magazine Wallpaper* called UNINTERRUPTED “one of the world’s must-see public art installations of 2017.” In 2021, Nettie directed the conversion of UNINTERRUPTED into virtual reality.