Laurie Colbert

Laurie Colbert is a Canadian film director, producer, and screenwriter.

She works primarily but not exclusively in collaboration with Dominique Cardona.

[1] The duo are most noted for their 1999 short film Below the Belt, which was a Genie Award nominee for Best Live Action Short Drama at the 21st Genie Awards in 2000,[2] and their feature film Margarita, which won the Audience Award for Best Feature Film at the Inside Out Film and Video Festival in 2012.

[3] Their other films have included the documentary shorts Thank God I'm a Lesbian (1992)[4] and My Feminism (1997),[5] and the feature films Finn's Girl (2007)[6] and Catch and Release (2018).

[8] Separately from Cardona, Colbert was an assistant director on Naomi McCormack's short film The Hangman's Bride.