Lisa’s first short Suckerfish premiered at 2004 Hot Docs and has screened at over 50 festivals across Canada and internationally. It has aired nationally on CBC’s ZeD, The National, and Canadian Reflections, as well as on APTN. Her most recent documentary is the one-hour Reservation Soldiers which was produced with Screen Siren Pictures and aired on CTV in late 2007. She is developing a documentary on aboriginal languages with the NFB and co-directing the feature-length doc MS 408 (in development) with cinematographer Bob Aschmann. She is a mentor with the National Film Board’s “Our World” program to train aboriginal youth in digital storytelling using their traditional languages.

Lisa spent several years researching and production coordinating award winning educational shows for air on Knowledge Network and has directed curricular video and multimedia projects. In 2004, she received the ImagineNATIVE Alliance Atlantis Mentorship Award and in 2005 the Vancouver Arts Award for Emerging Media Artist. Lisa is Anishinaabe, grew up in Toronto and Vancouver, and studied Film at Simon Fraser University.