An Ojibway of Saugeen First Nation, raised off-reserve in southern and northern Ontario, Dustin Lawrence graduated from Toronto Film School with a diploma in Film Production in 2015. Soon after, he worked in Production and Post-Production for Big Soul Productions Inc. (2015 – 2017), most notably as the Digital Asset Manager and Assistant Editor for seasons two and three of Derek Miller’s The Guilt Free Zone (APTN), as a First Assistant Camera and Digital Asset Manager on the CBC short doc The Secret Path: In The Classroom, and as an Assistant Editor on the digital content for APTN’s docu-series AskiBoyz.

He has held full-time positions at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival as Industry Assistant, and is currently the Technical & Collections Manager at the artist-run distribution centre Vtape, where he works closely with artists on the presentation and distribution of their work.

In 2018, he was the cinematographer for Artist Judith Schuyler’s experimental short film Onyota’a:ka khale Tsi’tkaluto which premiered at the 2018 imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival.