Lauren Grant is the principle at Clique Pictures, a vibrant film and television production company with a focus on working with female creative talent in front and behind the camera.
Lauren has produced feature films Sugar Daddy, Riot Girls, Giant Little Ones, The Parting Glass, Wet Bum, Picture Day. Lauren also served as executive producer on the short documentary Take a Walk on the Wildside by director Lisa Rideout, which premiered at Hot Docs in 2017 and was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Short Doc in 2018.
Picture Day and the futuristic short film Frost, both premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Picture Day won the Borsos Award for Best Film and Best Performance at the Whistler Film Festival for lead actress Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black). Frost won Best Canadian Short Film at the Edmonton International Film Festival and was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Live Action Short Film. Lauren worked as production consultant on season one of the Temple Street series Killjoys.
In 2011 she produced the Genie Award-winning dramatic short, Savage directed by Lisa Jackson. The film also earned a nomination for the Grand Jury Prize at SXSW.
The Hollywood Reporter named Lauren one of 15 Talents to Watch in their Next Gen Canada 2014 edition. Lauren is an alumna of Trans Atlantic Partners (2013), Bell Media Executive Producer Accelerator Lab (2014), TIFF Studio (2012-2013), Producers Lab at TIFF (2012), WIDC Career Advancement Module (2012), Rotterdam Lab (2011), and Berlinale Talent Campus (2011). Lauren holds a Bachelor of Arts from UBC with a double major in Film Production and History and attended the Canadian Film Centre’s Producers Lab.
Awards & Nominations
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Sugar Daddy (feature film, as producer)
2020 Nomination, Best Feature Film Borsos Award, Whistler Film Festival
Engraved on a Nation (documentary, as producer)
2020 Nomination, Best Biography or Arts Documentary Program or Series, Canadian Screen Awards
Take a Walk on the Wild Side (short documentary, as producer)
2018 Nomination, Best Short Documentary, Canadian Screen Awards
Frost (short, as producer)
2013 Nomination, Best Live Action Short, Canadian Screen Awards
A Window Looking In (short documentary, as producer)
2011 Nomination, Best Short Documentary, Leo Awards
Savage (short, as producer)
2011 Best Live Action Short, Genie Award (Canadian Screen Awards)
2010 Nomination, Best Short, Leo Awards