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2013 Canadian film

Watermark
Directed by	Jennifer Baichwal Edward Burtynsky
Written by	Jennifer Baichwal
Produced by	Nicholas de Pencier
Cinematography	Nicholas de Pencier
Edited by	Roland Schlimme
Music by	Martin Tielli Roland Schlimme
Production company	Sixth Wave Productions
Distributed by	Mongrel Media
Release date	6 September 2013 (2013-09-06) (TIFF)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	Canada
Languages	English Spanish Hindi Bengali Mandarin
Box office	$84,464

Watermark is a 2013 Canadian documentary film by Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky. It concerns the history and use of water. Burtynsky was previously the subject of Baichwal's 2006 documentary, Manufactured Landscapes. The film looks at water use practices in ten countries around the world, including the United States, China and India.

The film was recorded in various international locations using ultra-high-definition equipment, including a prototype RED Epic that was hand assembled.

The film won the Rogers Best Canadian Film Award at the 2013 Toronto Film Critics Association Awards, over The Dirties and Gabrielle and was named Best Feature Length Documentary at the 2nd Canadian Screen Awards in 2014.

References

"Watermark". Toronto International Film Festival. Retrieved 23 August 2013.
"Watermark (2014) – Box Office Mojo". Box Office Mojo.
"'Watermark' a film on how water marks our lives – Post and Courier". postandcourier.com. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015.
"Talented veterans, emerging directors make TIFF's Canadian lineup". CBC News. 7 August 2013. Retrieved 13 August 2013.
"Watermark: Interview with Jennifer Baichwal and Nick de Pencier – Point of View Magazine". povmagazine.com. 4 September 2013.
"Critics name Baichwal documentary 'Watermark' best Canadian film". CTV News, 7 January 2014.
Kate Taylor, "Gabrielle named best picture at Canadian Screen Awards". The Globe and Mail, 10 March 2014.

External links

v t e Films directed by Jennifer Baichwal
Looking You in the Back of the Head (1997) Let It Come Down: The Life of Paul Bowles (1998) The Holier It Gets (2000) The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia (2002) Manufactured Landscapes (2006) Act of God (2009) Payback (2012) Watermark (2013) Long Time Running (2017) Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (2018) Into the Weeds (2022)

v t e Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television for Best Feature Length Documentary and Best Short Documentary
Canadian Film Awards 1968–1978	Never a Backward Step (1968) Good Times, Bad Times (1969) Wild Africa (1970) Les Philharmonistes (1971) Coming Home (1973) Janis (1975) Ahô: The Forest People (1976) The Inquiry Film: A Report on the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline (1977) The Champions (1978)
Genie Awards 1980–2011	Paperland: The Bureaucrat Observed (1980) Plusieurs tombent en amour (1981) P4W: Prison for Women (1982) The Devil at Your Heels (1983) Pourquoi l'étrange Monsieur Zolock s'intéressait-il tant à la bande dessinée? (1984) Raoul Wallenberg: Buried Alive (1985) Final Offer (1986) Dads and Kids (1987) God Rides a Harley (1988) Comic Book Confidential (1989) Strand: Under the Dark Cloth (1990) The Famine Within (1991) Deadly Currents (1992) Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives (1993) In the Gutter and Other Good Places (1994) The Champagne Safari (1995) Bones of the Forest (1996) Tu as crié: Let Me Go (1997) A Place Called Chiapas (1998) Just Watch Me: Trudeau and the '70s Generation (1999) Grass (2000) Westray (2001) Gambling, Gods and LSD (2002) FIX: The Story of an Addicted City (2003) The Corporation (2004) Scared Sacred (2005) Manufactured Landscapes (2006) Radiant City (2007) Up the Yangtze (2008) A Hard Name (2009) Last Train Home (2010) At Night, They Dance (2011)
Canadian Screen Awards 2012–present	Stories We Tell (2012) Watermark (2013) Super Duper Alice Cooper (2014) Hurt (2015) I Am the Blues (2016) Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World (2017) Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (2018) Nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up (2019) Wandering: A Rohingya Story (2020) Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy (2021) To Kill a Tiger (2022) Twice Colonized (2023)
Short Documentary	Avec tambours et trompettes (1968) Juggernaut (1969) KW+ (1970) The Sea (1971) Selling Out (1972) Grierson and Faire hurler les murs (1973) At 99: A Portrait of Louise Tandy Murch and Cree Hunters of Mistassini (1975) Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry (1976) Greenpeace: Voyages to Save the Whales (1977) The Hottest Show on Earth (1978) Priory: The Only Home I've Got (1980) No More Hiroshima (1986) The World Is Watching (1989) Stunt People (1990) The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein (1991) A Song for Tibet (1992) Le singe bleu (1993) Fiction and Other Truths: A Film About Jane Rule (1995) Maman et Ève (1996) Unveiled: The Mother/Daughter Relationship (1997) Shadow Maker: Gwendolyn MacEwen, Poet (1998) Hemingway: A Portrait (1999) The Delian Mode (2009) Sirmilik (2011) The Boxing Girls of Kabul (2012) Chi (2013) Jutra (2014) Bacon and God's Wrath (2015) This River (2016) Take a Walk on the Wildside (2017) My Dead Dad's Porno Tapes (2018) Take Me to Prom (2019) Sing Me a Lullaby (2020) Nalujuk Night (2021) Patty vs. Patty (2022) Madeleine (2023)

v t e Toronto Film Critics Association's Rogers Award for Best Canadian Film
Feature	The Sweet Hereafter (1997) Last Night (1998) Set Me Free (1999) waydowntown (2000) Last Wedding (2001) Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2002) Spider (2003) The Triplets of Belleville (2004) A History of Violence (2005) Manufactured Landscapes (2006) Away from Her (2007) My Winnipeg (2008) Polytechnique (2009) Incendies (2010) Monsieur Lazhar (2011) Stories We Tell (2012) Watermark (2013) Enemy (2014) The Forbidden Room (2015) The Stairs (2016) Werewolf (2017) Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (2018) The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (2019) Anne at 13,000 Ft. (2020) Beans (2021) Riceboy Sleeps (2022) BlackBerry (2023)
Documentary	Swan Song (2023)

Toronto Film Critics Association's Rogers Award for Best Canadian Film

Feature

The Sweet Hereafter (1997)
Last Night (1998)
Set Me Free (1999)
waydowntown (2000)
Last Wedding (2001)
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2002)
Spider (2003)
The Triplets of Belleville (2004)
A History of Violence (2005)
Manufactured Landscapes (2006)
Away from Her (2007)
My Winnipeg (2008)
Polytechnique (2009)
Incendies (2010)
Monsieur Lazhar (2011)
Stories We Tell (2012)
Watermark (2013)
Enemy (2014)
The Forbidden Room (2015)
The Stairs (2016)
Werewolf (2017)
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch (2018)
The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (2019)
Anne at 13,000 Ft. (2020)
Beans (2021)
Riceboy Sleeps (2022)
BlackBerry (2023)

Documentary

Swan Song (2023)

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