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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, with an upcoming release on HBO 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 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. 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). 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.
Contact info:
alisonfairweather@gmail.com
416 627 7331
Main Reel
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Caprichosos de San Telmo
Link: IMDB
Roles: Director, Writer
Type: Documentary Feature
Genre: Documentary
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CARNY
Link: IMDB
Roles: Director, Writer
Studio / Network: The Sundance Channel
Type: Documentary Feature
Genre: Documentary
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TRAIN ON THE BRAIN
Link: IMDB
Roles: Director, Writer
Studio / Network: Channel 4 Television
Type: Documentary Feature
Genre: Documentary
