Alison Fairweather Murray
Ontario
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 other platforms in North America, and on HBOMAX in Europe.
Murray recently won the SeriesMakers Prize at Series Mania 2026 for her pitch for the half hour dramedy series Chachachá! . She has teamed up with Producers Danny Iron and Jennifer Weiss to develop the show in which a repressed gen X woman seeks to reconnect with herself through Latin dance. She is also developing the psychological thriller series My Lie based on the autobiographical book by Meredith Maran. My Lie is set against the backdrop of what has been called the worst thing to happen to the mental health space since the lobotomy - the Repressed Memory Movement of the 1980s and 1990s. Finally, Murray is developing the magic realist feature drama Day of the Dog.
Eager to make the jump into directing series, Murray recently shadowed director Craig David Wallace on an episode of Murdoch Mysteries.
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 starring a young Elliot Page (Best Feature, Brooklyn International Film Festival ), which was recently rereleased by Samuel Goldwyn Films. 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.
alisonfairweather@gmail.com
416 627 7331
Awards
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TRAIN ON THE BRAIN
Link: IMDB
Roles: Director, Writer
Studio / Network: Channel 4 Television
Genre: Documentary
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