Pepita Ferrari
# Pepita Ferrari

Pepita Ferrari (1952 - 2018) was a Canadian filmmaker. In 1994 she began her long-standing relationship with the National Film Board of Canada, who produced seven of her films, five of which are available to stream online in both English and French. Her directorial debut By Woman's Hand was a documentary about the Beaver Hall Group, a group of Canadian women painters, who were associated with the Group of Seven. Ferrari focused on the three most prominent artists from the group: Prudence Heward, Sarah Robertson and Anne Savage. Her 2010 documentary Capturing Reality: The Art of Documentary features well-known living documentary filmmakers such as Nick Broomfield, Werner Herzog, Kim Longinotto and Errol Morris watching their own films and discussing the technical and ethical choices that guided their work. The film sets out to answer the question - “What is documentary?” - by taking the viewer through the process of creating a documentary from initial idea to final edit. Ferrari also wrote for Point of View, a Canadian magazine about documentary film and photography.

## Filmography

| Year | Film | Director | Producer | Writer | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2011 | Source | Yes | | | Short |
| 2008 | Capturing Reality | Yes | | | Documentary |
| 2006 | Canticum Canticorum | Yes | | | |
| 2004 | The Unsexing of Emma Edmonds | Yes | Yes | Yes | TV movie |
| 2001 | Dogs with Jobs: Willy & Rope | Yes | | | TV series documentary |
| 2001 | Dogs with Jobs: Kavic & Mas | Yes | | Yes | TV series documentary |
| 2001 | Dogs with Jobs: Petro & Mel | Yes | | | TV series documentary |
| 1997 | The Petticoat Expeditions | Yes | | Yes | |
| 1997 | The Petticoat Expeditions: Part One: Anna Jameson | Yes | | Yes | Short |
| 1997 | The Petticoat Expeditions: Part Two: Frances Hopkins | Yes | | Yes | Short |
| 1997 | The Petticoat Expeditions: Part Three: Countess of Aberdeen | Yes | | Yes | Short |
| 1994 | By Woman's Hand | Yes | Yes | Yes | Documentary about Beaver Hall Group |
