Lauren Lazin

Lauren Lazin is an American filmmaker whose first feature film, Tupac: Resurrection was nominated for a 2005 Academy Award. Her follow-up film, I'm Still Here: Real Diaries of Young People Who Lived During the Holocaust was nominated for two 2006 Emmy Awards, and was named Best Documentary by the National Foundation for Jewish Culture. She was also the director of the documentary The Last Days of Left Eye which looked at the life and death of Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes of TLC.

Lauren Lazin is an award-winning filmmaker whose first feature film, Tupac: Resurrection was nominated for a 2005 Academy Award. Her follow-up film, I'm Still Here: Real Diaries of Young People Who Lived During the Holocaust was nominated for two 2006 EMMY Awards, and was named Best Documentary by the National Foundation for Jewish Culture.

Lazin was also an Executive Producer for The U.S. vs. John Lennon, which was distributed theatrically by Lionsgate Entertainment, and for Jihad for Love (a feature film about Gay Muslims) which premiered at the 2007 Toronto Film Festival and the 2008 Berlin Film Festival. It went on to win a GLAAD award for Outstanding Documentary.

Her film, Soul Train: The Hippest Trip in America was nominated for an EMMY in 2012, and was awarded the Cine Golden Eagle. It premiered as VH1’s highest rated Rock Documentary. Lazin’s Last Days of Left Eye, was the opening night movie for the 2007 Urban World and Atlanta Film festivals. It premiered on VH1 in the spring of 2007 to critical acclaim and stellar ratings. Other recent film work for VH1 include the highly rated specials The TRL Decade and Yo! The Story of Yo! MTV Raps.

Lazin also directed the concert sequences for the film Can’t Stand Losing You, a feature documentary about the rock band The Police, told from the point of view of its celebrated guitarist, Andy Summers, now in limited release in AMC theaters.

Lazin’s first film, The Flapper Story (1985), premiered at the Museum of Modern Art’s New Directors/New Films series and won a Student Academy Award. Her documentary Journey of Dr. Dre was nominated for two 2001 EMMY Awards.

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