Josephine Anderson is a Vancouver-based documentary filmmaker who works across linear and immersive modes to address themes like time, irreverence, yearning, and female experience. Her films are intimate, sensorial, and imaginative. Josephine’s work has been shown at festivals worldwide including Tribeca and IDFA, and has been exhibited by The New Yorker Documentary, CBC, Canada Council for the Arts, and the National Film Board of Canada. She has received two Vimeo Staff Picks.
Josephine recently completed her first feature documentary, “Curl Power,” which will have its world premiere at Hot Docs (2024). Josephine’s virtual reality documentary, “Texada,” co-directed by Claire Sanford, world premiered at IDFA (2023). Prior to that, her film “On Falling” premiered at Tribeca Film Festival (2020), in competition for best short documentary, and was later distributed by The New Yorker Documentary and selected as a Vimeo Staff Pick. It won the prizes for Best Documentary Short and Best Editing at Vancouver International Women in Film Festival, Vimeo Staff Pick Award at Mountainfilm, and Best Mountain Culture Film at Whistler Film Festival. It was nominated for Best Short Film at the Directors Guild of Canada Awards.
Additional directing titles include Vimeo Staff Pick “Starlight & Other Sounds” (NFB/CBC Gem) and “The Sticking Place,” an interactive web documentary, which was recognized as a Webby Award Honoree, won two Pixel Awards, and was nominated for a Digi Award. She has also directed multiple episodes of the Canadian Screen Award-winning series, Canada’s a Drag (CBC).
Josephine is an alumna of Berlinale Talent Campus and the Canadian Film Centre (NFB/CFC Creative Doc Lab). She holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of British Columbia, and is a graduate of Capilano University’s Documentary program, where she was honoured with the One to Watch alumni award.
Josephine is a member of the Directors Guild of Canada, and the Documentary Organization of Canada.