Winding Path

ALEXANDRA LAZAROWICH is an award-winning Cree filmmaker originally from northern Alberta, Canada. She is passionate about telling Indigenous stories. Her short documentary FAST HORSE premiered and won the Special Jury Award for Directing at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.

Alexandra’s body of work as a director, series producer and writer include CBC’s Stuff the British Stole, SYFY’s Resident Alien S3, CBC’s Still Standing, LAKE, JESSE JAMS, A Portrait in Red, Indian Rights for Indian Women, Out of Nothing, Cree Code Talker, Crooked Creek, Empty Metal, INAATE/SE/ and Alvaro. She is one of the co-founders of COUSIN COLLECTIVE.

ROSS KAUFFMAN (Co-Director) is an Academy Award-winning director. His credits include the feature documentaries BORN INTO BROTHELS, E-TEAM, and TIGERLAND, all of which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. His short documentary WHAT WOULD SOPHIA LOREN DO?, a Netflix original, was shortlisted for the 2021 Academy Awards. His latest feature documentary, OF MEDICINE AND MIRACLES, will be distributed this spring. Ross founded Red Light Films, a media company based in New York City, and teaches documentary filmmaking in the MFA Program at the School of Visual Arts.