Ottawa – Cree director Alexandra Lazarowich riffs off classic verité cinema to craft a contemporary portrait of Métis women net fishing in Northern Alberta. LAKE premiered at the 2019 Hot Docs Festival in Toronto and screened at the 2019 ImagineNATIVE festival. She won many awards such as 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.
