Education
Brown University.
Brown University.
She often employs cutting edge technologies to explore social issues from a new perspective. A prime example of this is her critically acclaimed public cyber art documentary Symphony of a City. Her documentary Deadly Embrace: Nicaragua, The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (1995), was one of the first films to look critically at the effects of the International Monetary Fund, World Bank policy and globalization.
In 2009 Canner directed: The Strange Science of Female Pleasure, a feature length investigative documentary on the pharmaceutical industry and women"s health.
Canner graduated with Honors in Anthropology and Visual Arts from Brown University in1991. She has been the recipient of over 50 awards, honors and grants for her work including a Rockefeller Foundation Next Generation Leadership Fellowship for "creating innovative media projects that strengthen democracy", a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, a Radcliffe Institute (Bunting) Film/Video Fellowship from Harvard University and the Visionary Award from Dartmouth College.
She previously lived with writer Pagan Kennedy in a set-up they have described as similar to a Boston marriage. Hidden Tribe (2006) Bridges (2004) Moving Visions (2003) Symphony of a City (2001) (Company-director John Ewing) Distilling the Essence of Women (2004) Dream Colony (1996) Krafty (1999) (with the Anti-ad Agency) SUV (1998) (with the Anti-ad Agency) Nike (1998) (with the Anti-ad Agency).