Mia Donovan is a filmmaker and award-winning photographer based in Montreal. She has written and directed three feature documentaries, Inside Lara Roxx (2011), Deprogrammed (2015) and Dope is Death (2020). Her films have been presented worldwide at film festivals, on TV broadcasts, theatrically and on digital platforms such as Netflix. In 2016 she wrote and directed her first virtual reality experience called Deprogrammed VR (2016) that won the coveted IDFA DocLab Award for Digital Storytelling that year. Aside from working on her own projects, she has worked as a story consultant on Ubisoft’s Far Cry 5 and directed the music video for Rufus Wainwright’s video "Trouble In Paradise." She is currently developing her first narrative feature called The Touch of Her Flesh.
In the Spring of 2004, 21-year-old Lara Roxx left her hometown of Montreal and headed to L.A to try and make a ton of cash in the adult entertainment industry. Within two months of working in this industry, she contracted the most virulent form of HIV while performing sex in front of the camera. Inside Lara Roxx is a feature-length documentary about the events leading up to that scene and the y...
In the Spring of 2004, 21-year-old Lara Roxx left her hometown of Montreal and headed to L.A to try and make a ton of cash in the adult entertainment industry. Within two months of working in this industry, she contracted the most virulent form of HIV while performing sex in front of the camera. Inside Lara Roxx is a feature-length documentary about the events leading up to that scene and the y...