Since then, he has been involved with Kevin Annett in producing films that raise public awareness of the abuses of the Canadian Indian residential school system.
He then found work at Hollywood Center Studios, first in the mail room,[3] and then doing small production-related jobs on television shows such as The Beverly Hillbillies, The A-Team, Petticoat Junction, Green Acres, and Riptide.
[1] Upon returning to Canada, Lawless began producing local documentaries in his native British Columbia on topics such as the Cowichan River.
[8] In 2009, Lawless began shooting another production, this time a fictionalized feature film called The Diary, to further examine the situation of the First Nations people under the residential school system.
In 2013, Louie produced a documentary called Behind The Red Serge that exposes Canada's iconic police force the RCMP for its illegal and immoral actions in the workplace.