Brittany Ollerenshaw

Brittany is a local independent documentary filmmaker who enjoys telling stories about creative and passionate people. Her filmmaking goal is to inform and inspire her audience.

Her love of film began in highschool where she had the opportunity to take audio/video and film studies courses. She won the school's film festival two years in a row with short fiction projects before graduating in 2004. Upon graduation she was the recipient of the Film Studies award and the Cinefest Niagara Scholarship.

Brittany was then off to University to study Film Theory, graduating from York University in 2007. After writing so many theoretical essays with very little production education she fell out of love with filmmaking for quite some time. She filled her time working in horticulture and later as a nurse.

It was during a volunteering adventure to Hawai'i in 2010 that a small spark was ignited when she filmed the conservation work being done, creating a short documentary (Is Just Green Good Enough?, 2010) for the program she was volunteering with.

In 2014 that small spark became a flame when the Brighton Arts Council held a call for artists to complete Van Gogh inspired works. She decided to make a piece for this art show and also to film the artists creating their own works, which accidentally turned into her first feature documentary (Unravelling Vincent, 2014). This film was shown at Belleville Downtown Docfest with an accompanying art show and her love of filmmaking was reignited!

She applied and was selected for the Toronto Hot Docs Doc Accelerator program in 2014 and continued to create documentaries with "Making a Musical" in 2018 and "Harvesting Dreams" in 2021, both showing at Belleville DocFest with the latter winning the Audience Choice Award.

Brittany took a Documentary Development course with Sundance Collab in 2024 and is currently in pre-production for a new documentary about the history of Women's Health in medical research coinciding with her own chronic illness journey and her career as a nurse.

Brittany enjoys spending time with her husband & son, volunteering in the Quinte area with both arts & healthcare organizations and of course dabbling in all sorts of creative projects at home!