Best Picture Editing in a Documentary Program or Series, Leo Award Best Documentary (1st runner-up), Seattle International Film Festival Special Jury Mention, Montreal New Film And Video Festival Audience Award, Philadelphia International Film Festival Audience Award, Vancouver International Film Festival Audience Award, Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival Audience Award, FIC Brasilia International Film Festival Audience Award (1st runner-up), Calgary International Film Festival Audience Award (1st runner-up), Toronto International Film Festival Unspeak: Brave New Minds (2013) Nominee: Prix Europa I Am (2011) Documentary Award - Catholics in Media Associates (CIMA) - 2012 The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel (2020) Nominee: Best Canadian Feature Film, Toronto International Film Festival The Magnitude of All Things (2020) Best Canadian Documentary, Planet in Focus Film Festival Nominee: Best Picture Editing in Documentary, Directors Guild of Canada Personal life Abbott is a graduate of political science from McGill University and the mother of three children, including twin daughters born in 2006 featured in her film The Magnitude of All Things. She's an early adopter of renewable energy in transport and lifestyle, an organic farmer and a practitioner of Zen Buddhism studying to take precepts in the socially engaged Zen Peacemakers Order. She splits her time between Vancouver and the Gulf Islands on Canada's West Coast. Select Filmography Director Skinned (1993) A Cow at My Table (1998) The Corporation (2003) Unspeak: Brave New Minds (2013) Us and Them (2015) The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel (2020) The Magnitude of All Things (2020) Writer Skinned (1993) Us and Them (2015) Sea Blind (2015) The Magnitude of All Things (2020) Editor Skinned (1993) A Cow at My Table (1998) Two Brides and a Scalpel: Diary of a Lesbian Marriage (2000) The Corporation (2003) Let It Ride (2006) I Am (2011) Unspeak: Brave New Minds (2013) Sea Blind (2015) Us and Them (2015) The Magnitude of All Things (2020) Sound Design Skinned (1993) Unspeak: Brave New Minds (2013) Sea Blind (2015) The Magnitude of All Things (2020) Producer A Cow at My Table (1998) I Am (2011) The Magnitude of All Things (2020) References External links The Magnitude of All Things at https://www.themagnitudeofallthings.com The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel at https://thenewcorporation.movie The Corporation at http://thecorporation.com Living people Canadian documentary film directors Canadian women film directors Directors of Genie and Canadian Screen Award winners for Best Documentary Film Film directors from Montreal Anglophone Quebec people Canadian women farmers 1965