Alison Fairweather Murray

Born in Nova Scotia, raised in England, Murray's latest feature, ARIEL BACK TO BUENOS AIRES, is currently streaming on Amazon Prime, Apple TV and on HBOMAX in Central/ Eastern Europe. It is the story of a brother and sister who travel to Argentina, country of their birth, for the first time as adults. There they fall in love with tango and discover some dark family scerets about their family's emigration. The film garnered a slew of festival prizes including Best International Feature at SAN DIEGO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, Best Foreign Feature at ARIZONA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, Jury Prize at MUMBAI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, Audience Award at the WOODS HOLE FILM FESTIVAL, and others. 

Murray is currently developing the series Cha Cha Cha! with Producer Jennifer Weiss - an energetic half hour dance dramedy in which a repressed gen X, divorcing-in-the-first-episode woman seeks romance and to reconnect with herself through Latin dance. She is also developing the pyschological thriller series MY LIE based on the book by Meredith Maran. Told across two timelines, My Lie juxtaposes the mass panic of the Repressed Memory Movement in the late 1980s with a present-day homicide investigation. Think the tense, fragmented storytelling of Sharp Objects and The Sinner, layered with the moral ambiguity that made Baby Reindeer a phenomenon. Finally, Murray has acquired the rights to PACIFIQUE, a first novel by Sarah Taggart , which she is adapting into a feature screenplay. It's the story of a love triangle in which one of the participants may not exist, grappling with mental health issues and fantasy.   

Murray began directing music videos in the UK in the 1990’s, as well as working on the BBC series DANCE FOR THE CAMERA. Her short films have played in retrospectives at the Tate Gallery London, the Institute for Contemporary Art London, and the Royal Cinema Toronto, and at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. She made her first documentary in 2000 with TRAIN ON THE BRAIN (Channel 4/TVO) in which she rode the rails across North America with a group of teenage hobos. She followed up with her first dramatic feature MOUTH TO MOUTH (Best Feature, Brooklyn International Film Festival ). Murray also wrote and directed CARNY for the Sundance Channel (Hot Docs, Best Documentary, Brooklyn International Film Festival). Murray has participated in the Berlinale Talent Campus, the Rotterdam Coproduction Market, IFP No Borders and the Ontario Creates International Financing Forum. She lived for many years in Buenos Aires, where her two daughters were born, and where she made the documentary CAPRICHOSOS DE SAN TELMO (TIFF). In 2014 Murray won the Buenos Aires Tango Championship dancing with her husband Carlos Boeri.