Lorraine is an award-winning writer/director known for crafting character-driven films with unflinching honesty and emotional depth. Lorraine’s feature documentary, Last Woman Standing, which followed two of the world’s best female boxers on the road to the 2012 Olympics, premiered at Hot Docs where it was nominated for Best Canadian Feature and finished in the Top Ten Audience Choice Awards. During the film’s festival run, Lorraine picked up an award for Best Direction at the Vancouver International Women in Film Festival. Lorraine’s second sports documentary, On the Line, which follows the rivalry between the American and Canadian women’s hockey teams, garnered four nominations at the prestigious Canadian Screen Awards, winning two: Best Direction and Best Editing. These films cemented Lorraine’s reputation for excellence in the sports documentary genre.
In 2020, Lorraine’s documentary, The Hairdresser—a short, poetic film about a volunteer hairdresser in palliative care—screened at over 30 international film festivals including AFI Docs, Hot Docs, Holly Shorts, The Chicago International Film Festival and Atlanta Film Festival. The Hairdresser garnered numerous awards on its festival run including, Best Short Documentary (Charlotte Film Festival), Best Canadian Short and Best Documentary Short (Reel Shorts), and Second Place Audience Choice Award & Honourable Mention (Hot Docs). The Hairdresser also received two Golden Sheaf nominations and a special mention at the Social Impact Media Awards.
Lorraine is an alumna of the distinguished Women in the Director’s Chair (WIDC) program, a member of the Directors Guild of Canada (DGC), and a member of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television. Her films have been presented on platforms such as PBS/POV: Docs, Crave, CBC, and Tënk.
Lorraine is currently in post-production on a personal documentary entitled, Father Figure; she is developing her feature film Songs to Die to, and her short fiction film, The Break, starring Laurence Leboeuf, will go to camera in April 2025.
Lorraine is also an aspiring author. She is currently writing a memoir entitled A Place to Return to. In her spare time, Lorraine is a reader for Brick: A Literary Journal. She holds dual citizenship in the United States and Canada, and lives in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal.