STEPHANIE WEIMAR

Stephanie Weimar is a writer, director, story editor and story producer with more than fifteen years experience collaborating on all kinds of documentary programming - from doc series to features and interactive projects. She immigrated from Germany in 2003 and is now based in Toronto.

Stephanie is currently working as a story producer and director at Cave 7 Productions.

Most recently she story edited the Vice TV show Dark Side of Reality TV and she was the series writer and director of Stuff the British Stole (S2) produced by Cream Productions, Wildbear and Wooden Horse for CBC and ABC Australia. Season one, which she story edited the year before, won the Canadian Screen Award for Best History Program 2024.

In 2022 and 2023 she also was the senior story producer for An Optimist’s Guide to the Planet with Nikolaj Coster-Waldau produced by Cream Productions for Bloomberg.

Previously, she wrote and directed the feature documentary Naked for Crave (nominated for a Canadian Screen Award 2024), as well as the doc series Writing the Land for CBC and Arte/ZDF (nominated for the Canadian Screen Awards Best Direction Documentary Series and Best Arts Documentary Program in 2022).

In 2021 Stephanie was a doc director for season 3 of Hours to Kill, produced by Cineflix, as well as the story editor for There's No Place Like This Place. Anyplace which won the Hot Docs Audience Award 2020 and was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award in 2020 (Best Writing, Best Direction).

Stephanie has a keen interest in environmental and nature documentary projects. She was a field producer for Kingdom of the Polar Bears for Nat Geo and CBC which was nominated for the Canadian Screen Awards 2022 Rob Stewart Award.

She co-directed Polar Sea 360, an interactive 360º documentary for Arte/ZDF, which won the Grimme Preis Online Award in 2015. From 2015 to 2017 Stephanie was the writer and creative producer of the 8x1h documentary series Arctic Secrets for Blue Ant Media and the Smithsonian Channel, and she directed six stories for the 12x1h documentary series Equator - A New World View for Discovery Canada and Arte/ZDF.

Stephanie has a strong connection with Canada’s Northern territories. She lived in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut for more than five years and collaborated on a number of doc series there. In 2012 she researched, shot and co-directed the 6-part documentary series Watchers of the North for APTN. From 2006-2009 she directed, shot and edited episodes for the documentary series suaangan - Our Strength and uumatimnin – From The Heart with the Inuvialuit Communication Society based in Inuvik, NWT.

Stephanie’s first feature documentary My Brother’s Vows premiered at Dok Leipzig 2013. The film has screened at multiple festivals since and was broadcast on Arte. My Brother’s Vows is an intimate portrayal of Stephanie’s brother as he struggles to decide whether or not to become a Catholic monk.