Alexandra Lazarowich is a Cree director and producer from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Initially working as a child actress and model, by the age of 27 she had produced 9 films.[1] She is the producer for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Still Standing.[2]

Lazarowich made Fast Horse, a documentary about Blackfoot Indian Relay racers, in honour of Thomas Many Guns of the Siksika Nation, who brought the revitalized sport to the community. Fast Horse won the Short Film Special Jury Award for Directing at the Sundance Film Festival,[3] and the Best Documentary Work Short Format Award at the 2018 ImagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival.[4] Additionally Fast Horse won three Golden Sheaf Awards at the 2019 Yorkton Film Festival, in the Best of Festival, Best Indigenous, and Best Multicultural (Under 30 Minutes) categories.[5][6]

Other films include Cree Code Talker (2016), about a man using his Indigenous language to relay code during World War II. It won Best Documentary at the 2016 ImagineNATIVE Festival.[7]

Her short documentary LAKE, about Métis women net fishing, was produced by the National Film Board of Canada. It premiered at the 2019 Hot Docs Festival in Toronto[8] and screened at the 2019 ImagineNATIVE festival.[9]

Other awards include: the 2012 American Indian Films Festival Best Animation award for Fighting Chance; and the 2013 Dreamspeakers Film Festival Best Documentary Under 30 Minutes award for Cyber Bullying.

Lazarowich is also the recipient of the Rising Director Mentorship Award from the 2018 ImagineNATIVE Festival.[4]

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References

  1. ^ "UnionDocs". UnionDocs. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  2. ^ Barlott, Caroline (28 June 2019). "Alexandra Lazarowich Used the Ancient Sport of Indian Relay to Fuel a Sundance-winning Documentary". Avenue Edmonton. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  3. ^ January 30, Fish Griwkowsky Updated (30 January 2019). "Edmonton born-and-raised Lazarowich takes Sundance shorts director prize | Edmonton Journal". Edmonton Journal. Retrieved 29 October 2019.((cite news)): CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ a b "2018: Festival Winners — imagineNATIVE Film & Media Arts Festival". 14 February 2019. Archived from the original on 14 February 2019. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  5. ^ "NSI grad win 2019 Yorkton Golden Sheaf Awards". National Screen Institute. 31 May 2019. Retrieved 8 December 2020.
  6. ^ "2019 Winners & Nominees". Yorkton Film Festival. Yorkton, Canada. 2019. Archived from the original on 7 June 2019. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
  7. ^ "2016 Award Winners A — imagineNATIVE Film & Media Arts Festival". 21 May 2017. Archived from the original on 21 May 2017. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  8. ^ "Lake". Hot Docs. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
  9. ^ "LAKE". imagineNATIVE. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
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