Hazy Pictures president, Lisa Hayes, is a digital media strategist with over 15 years experience producing film, video and interactive digital media. She has written and directed eight independent short films and produced one feature film that have been shown at over 100 film festivals around the world, and have been broadcast in France, Canada, USA, Spain, and Australia.
An open source advocate and late adopter techie, Lisa is studying Communication & Culture part time at Ryerson & York Universities. She writes a couple of blogs and volunteers weekly as a math tutor.
Hazy Pictures and Lisa Hayes are not connected to the Japanese anime character, inconveniently named Lisa Hayes.
Awards
- GOLDIROCKS: Best Indie Feature, LA Femme Film Festival, Los Angeles, 2005
- Prize of the Ministry of the Labour, Social Affairs and Family of the Slovak Republic for My Grandma’s Boyfriend at the XXVI International Festival of Professional Films, TV and Videoprograms EKOTOPFILM 99 , October 1999.
- Honorable Mention for Women Are Not Little Men at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, March 1999.
- Audience Favorite for DIKE, Making Waves Women’s Film & Video Festival, Taipei, Taiwan, 1998
- Best Short Film for DIKE, Critics Circle, Sydney International Film Festival, Australia, 1996
- Best of the Fest Screening for DIKE, Inside/Out Film & Video Festival, Toronto, Canada, 1996
