Elizabeth Lazebnik was born in Latvia and her family migrated to numerous countries before settling in Canada where she lived for the past 19 years. Elizabeth has made over 10 short films, with 3 of them premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival and other festivals such as Festival du Cinema Nouveau and Sudbury Film Festival. Her work has received awards and grants from the Female Eye Film Festival, HotDocs, NFB, Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council. In 2015 she completed MFA in Film Production at York University. The experience of living in different countries around the world has given her the ability to communicate in multiple languages and has instilled a deep appreciation for the world’s incredible diversity and the need to capture the stories she has witnessed on film. Most recently, she has won the 2017 K.M. Hunter Artist Award in the Media Arts discipline. The award is administered through the Ontario Arts Council – Conseil des arts de l’Ontario and Ontario Arts Foundation.
Elizabeth is the 2018 WIDC nominee for the Telefilm Canada Talent to Watch program for her debut feature film, Hannah which she developed through the Story & Leadership program.