Lauren Lazin
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 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.
Lazin most recently directed and executive produced the critically acclaimed three-part series Sometimes When We Touch: The Reign, Ruin and Resurrection of Soft Rock which premiered on Paramount Plus in 2023.
In 2012 Lazin was director and showrunner for Sperm Donor: 74 Kids and Counting, a special for The Style Network, which was nominated for a 2012 EMMY, and later was executive producer for Neighbors With Benefits, a docu-series which premiered on A&E in 2015 and debuted to much buzz and press attention.
The series featured exclusive interviews with Bobby and Alicia Brown, Usher, Jermaine Dupri, Babyface, Keith Sweat and members of New Edition.
In 2019 Lazin executive produced Untold Stories of Hip-Hop , hosted by Angie Martinez featuring Cardi B, Snoop Dogg, Queen Latifah, Ice-T, Fat Joe, ASAP Rocky, Ja Rule and DJ Khalid.
Lazin created the long running True Life, "a critically acclaimed documentary series about social issues affecting young people."
Her President Obama's Race to the Top Commencement Challenge special was produced in cooperation with the White House and received a 2012 EMMY nomination.
Her VH1 documentary series Rags to Riches profiled Snoop Dogg, Macy Gray, Akon and Nick Cannon, and was nominated for a 2007 NAMIC Award.
(for Coca-Cola) , Imagination Unleashed: An Artisan's Journey (for Ovation and Bombay Sapphire) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Behind the Action for Paramount Films and Nickelodeon.
Lazin graduated magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Smith College in 1982 and received a master's degree in documentary film production from Stanford University in 1985.
