Lauren Lazin
Lauren Lazin Beth (* around 1960 ) is an American documentary film - producer , director and - filmmaker . She has been repeatedly nominated for her documentaries for Emmys and produced the 2005 Oscar-nominated documentary Tupac: Resurrection .
education
Lauren Lazin graduated magna cum laude from Smith College , the largest women's college in the United States, in 1982 and received her Masters in documentary film production from Stanford University in 1985 . In 2007, Smith College honored her with an honorary doctorate. Lazin is a Phi Beta Kappa member.
Cinematic creation
Lazin's first film, The Flapper Story , premiered in 1985 at the Museum of Modern Art in the New Directors / New Films series and received a Student Academy Award.
She worked for MTV and PBS and made over 40 documentaries there. In 1990, the five-part TV miniseries Sex in the 90's was created , which later became a cult. In 1992 she developed the five-part MTV rockumentary format for MTV , in which music greats were portrayed. In 1993, Lazin released the award-winning documentary Seven Deadly Sins . The 1995 film Fight Back, about child abuse , was shown in special shows in Congress .
The 95-part TV documentary series True Life (1998-2008) produced by Lazin was nominated for an Emmy in 1999. The television documentary Journey of Dr. Dre received two Emmy nominations in 2001. The 2003 documentary Tupac: Resurrection was nominated in the same year by the International Documentary Association and at the 2005 Academy Awards in the category of Best Documentary. The follow-up film I'm Still Here: Real Diaries of Young People Who Lived During the Holocaust was nominated for two Emmys in 2006 and was recognized as Best Documentary by the National Foundation for Jewish Culture .
In 2007, the documentary The Last Days of Left Eye was released , which describes the life and death of TLC singer Lisa Lopes . The film first aired on VH1 . In 2009 Lazin made the widely broadcast documentary Get Schooled: You Have The Right , in which Barack Obama also has his say. It was through this contact that Obama's campaign documentation Race to the Top Commencement Challenge came about, which Lazin produced and which was nominated for an Emmy in 2012.
Lazin produced other successful documentaries for VH1, including 2010 Soul Train: The Hippest Trip in America (2012 Emmy nominee), The TRL Decade and Yo! The Story of Yo! (both 2012).
The 2014 documentary L Word Mississippi: Hate the Sin received the GLAAD Award in 2015.
Web links
- Lauren Lazin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Honorary Degrees - Recipients. In: Smith College. Accessed January 30, 2019 .
- ^ The Academy Awards 2005. In: oscars.org. Retrieved January 22, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lazin, Lauren |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lazin, Lauren Beth (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American filmmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | United States |