Alexandra Lazarowich is a Cree filmmaker who currently splits her time between Alberta and Brooklyn working on short films about the issues impacting Aboriginal peoples from around the world. She explores in her work the effects of colonization on Aboriginal peoples and their culture.
Total trailers found: 13
20 January 2024
Eastern Shoshone medical student Jenna Murray spent summers on the Wind River Indian Reservation helping her grandpa in any way she could.
20 October 2018
The Blackfoot bareback horse-racing tradition returns in the astonishingly dangerous Indian Relay. Siksika horseman Allison Red Crow struggles with secondhand horses and a new jockey on his way to challenging the best riders in the Blackfoot Confederacy.
01 October 2020
Considered a staple of Florida tourism, alligator wrestling has been performed by members of the Seminole Tribe for over a century.
09 June 2015
A meditation on memory and perseverance, this short film follows 75-year-old South Williamsburg resident Álvaro Brandon on his daily route to feed 40 stray cats in his neighborhood.
25 September 2018
Three intrepid women battle for Indigenous women's treaty rights.
31 May 2015
A short film about one of the most prominent yet often ignored landmarks of Los Sures, the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, (the BQE).
12 November 2021
Indigenous people have been misrepresented in film since the beginning of the Classic Hollywood Era, and people believe that Native Americans have vanished.
01 January 2018
A short documentary exploring the stories we tell about who we are and where we come from. Long Island, NY, is home to some of the oldest Indian reservations in the US, the home of the Shinnecock Nation.
01 May 2019
Cree director Alexandra Lazarowich riffs off classic verité cinema to craft a contemporary portrait of Métis women net fishing in Northern Alberta.
29 February 2016
INAATE/SE/ re-imagines an ancient Ojibway story, the Seven Fires Prophecy, which both predates and predicts first contact with Europeans.
01 January 2015
A short film based on a true story: One night reveals a culture of violence when a Native American woman narrowly escapes sexual assault.
06 May 2018
Adam Khalil and Bayley Sweitzer’s first feature as co-directors, Empty Metal takes place in a world similar to ours—one of mass surveillance, pervasive policing, and increasing individual apathy.
01 October 2016
CREE CODE TALKER reveals the role of Canadian Cree code talker Charles 'Checker' Tomkins during the Second World War.
