Additional Awards and Honors
Lazin’s films have won Ace Awards, Monitor Awards, and Cine Golden Eagles, with honors for Best Directing and Best Editing. The National Association of Minorities in Communications, The NAACP, and the National Council on Crime and Delinquency have honored her work. She also received the Ryan White Youth Service Award and the Ribbon of Hope Award for her outstanding contributions to the fight against Teen HIV/ AIDS. In 1995, Fight Back, her film about child sexual abuse, was featured in a special screening for Congress.
She is prominently featured in the reference books The Art of Documentary Film (2005), The Documentary Filmmakers Handbook (2006) and Tupac Remembered (2008), and has been a guest lecturer for documentary film classes at Duke and Stanford Universities.
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. She recently received an honorary doctorate from Smith College. In 1996 the Women’s College Coalition named Lazin as a “Role Model” and featured her in their national Ad Council campaign promoting women’s education.
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