About

Michal Lavi is an independent filmmaker who lives and works in Calgary, Alberta Canada. Her work has screened at many international film festivals including Academy qualifier, Flickers Rhode Island, Sofia International Film Festival, Raindance, Whistler Film Festival and Soho International among others. Her current film, Crowd Pleaser, produced with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Alberta Foundation for the arts, will premiere at the Mykonos Biennale. Her previous films, Glue (2013), I Liked You Better Before (2011), Arithmetic – Annie’s Life in Numbers (2010) and Tying the Not (2008) screened in over fifty festivals and were nominated to ten Rosie, Alberta Film and Television Awards, of which Glue won Best Cinematography in the Short Film Category.