Zana Lawrence Director, Original Documentary Features, Netflix
November 12, 2020
Increasing empathy on a global scale through the power of documentary storytelling.
Zana began in the documentary space early in her career, interning for esteemed NYC documentarian Marc Levin at Blowback Productions. She has spent the last 6 1/2 years as a part of the Netflix Documentary team, working with a wide array of filmmakers across various projects. She oversaw the recently launched doc series Unsolved Mysteries, executive produced by Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps and Terry Meurer’s CMP; Brian Knappenberger’s The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez; as well as the feature doc Becoming, directed by rising star, Nadia Hallgren, which took an intimate look at the life of Michelle Obama.
