Jennifer Abbott's entire career as a filmmaker and editor has been involved with challenging people's perceptions. Her first documentary, "A Cow at My Table," was on the horrors of factory farming, and Abbott met her co-director Mark Achbar while working as an editor on his documentary on lesbian marriages "Two Brides and a Scalpel."
"The Corporation," a huge hit in Canada (but not as big in that country to the South), has left Abbott assured of funding for her next project, but that doesn't keep her from tending her organic garden on pristine Galiano Island. "I do interviews with Newsday or whatever in my rubber boots with dirt under my fingernails," says the thirtysomething director and editor, with a laugh.
In Tokyo to promote her film, the vegetarian Abbott spoke with The Japan Times on making a lefty doc in the post-Michael Moore era.