About

Shazia Javed is an award-winning filmmaker and owner of LifeSketch Media Inc, a media production company based in Mississauga, Ontario. Her work has been broadcast on television internationally and screened at prestigious film festivals including Hot Docs, DOXA, Durban International, Reelworld and Mumbai International. Her projects have been supported by the National Film Board of Canada, the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and Edmonton Arts Council. Her films have won Audience Choice at Reelworld, and top awards from Mississauga Arts Council, and Visual Arts Mississauga. Shazia was also a finalist for three AMPIA (Alberta Media Production Industries Association) awards for her documentary, NAMRATA. Shazia’s work has been featured on BBC Radio, CBC National, Radio International-Canada, Times of India, and Hollywood North Magazine among other media platforms. She is listed among 11 outstanding filmmakers to watch in Our Front’s 2018 issue, and Playback’s 10 to Watch, 2020. Shazia has an MFA in Film, and is a graduate of Northern Alberta Institute of Technologies’ (NAIT) Certificate Program for Emerging Producers where she was selected to receive the ‘Most Promising Producer Award’. She is a recipient of DOC Breakthrough Development Award sponsored by the CBC, Ontario Creates, and Rogers Group of Funds. In 2020, she was selected to be a participant of Reelworld’s E20 Program. Shazia’s latest project, 3 SECONDS DIVORCE, a TV hour documentary is now streaming worldwide on Netflix.