Lea Marin is an award-winning Toronto based producer with more than 16 years of experience in the film and television industry. A graduate of the Canadian Film Centre’s Producer’s Lab, Lea joined the National Film Board of Canada as a producer in 2006. Her most recent film credit, UNARMED VERSES directed by Charles Officer, premiered at the Hot Docs International Film Festival in 2017, where it won the jury prize for Best Canadian Feature. Other credits include, MY PRAIRIE HOME which in 2014, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award; THE PORTRAIT, directed by Oscar nominated filmmaker, Hubert Davis, which in 2012 premiered on the BBC, and ASTRA TAYLOR’S EXAMINED LIFE, which launched at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2008. Prior to returning to the National Film Board of Canada, Lea Marin produced the CFC short dramatic film, ESCAPE, and worked as a line producer on the Discovery Channel series MEGA BUILDERS.
Through the journey of electoral hopeful Rosa Iris, filmmaker Michèle Stephenson’s new documentary STATELESS traces the complex tributaries of history and present-day politics between Haiti and the Dominican Republic, revealing the personal impact of institutionalized racism and oppression.