Josephine Anderson is a documentary filmmaker who works across linear and immersive modes to address themes like time, irreverence, yearning, and female experience. Her work is intimate, sensorial, and imaginative.
Josephine’s films have screened at festivals internationally including Tribeca, IDFA, Hot Docs and RIDM. Her works have been distributed and featured by The New Yorker Documentary, Vimeo Staff Picks, CBC, BBC Radio 4, Canada Council for the Arts, Video Consortium, Hubblo, and the National Film Board of Canada. She is an alumna of Berlin International Film Festival's Talents Summit, and of the Canadian Film Centre, where she participated in the NFB/CFC Creative Doc Lab residency.
Josephine’s debut feature documentary, Curl Power (2024), was nominated for Best Documentary Feature (Hot Docs), and enjoyed theatrical distribution in over 80 cinemas across Canada. Her co-directed VR documentary, Texada (IDFA, 2023), was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Immersive Experience (2025), and was adapted for Full Dome exhibition in North America and Australia. Her earlier short documentaries have received numerous awards, including 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.
Josephine has been invited to Guest Speak at Vancouver International Film Festival, St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival, DOXA Documentary Film Festival, InFocus Film School, the Congress for the Humanities and Social Sciences, and more. 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.