Lauren Marsden is an award-winning Canadian filmmaker and media artist of European and Trinidadian descent living on the unceded Coast Salish territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh nations also known as Vancouver. As a storyteller, she focuses on narrative and experimental works that explore gender, hybrid identities, and the human impact on the land.

She is an alum of Film Independent, the GEMS genre film lab, the Whistler Film Festival Women in Focus program, the University of Victoria, and the California College of the Arts MFA program. Her narrative short TABANCA has screened at 30 festivals around the world, including BFI Flare London, Inside Out Toronto, and Short Shorts in Japan. Her 2025 short film, a queer thriller called THE PALACE, was selected for Telefilm’s Not Short on Talent showcase at the Cannes Film Festival and the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal and is currently on the festival circuit.