Born in Nova Scotia and raised in England, Alison Fairweather Murray recently relocated back to Canada after living in Argentina. Murray's latest feature, Ariel Back to Buenos Aires, is currently streaming on Amazon Prime, Apple TV, and on HBO Max in Central/Eastern Europe. The film garnered a slew of festival prizes, including Best International Feature at the San Diego International Film Festival, Best Foreign Feature at the Arizona International Film Festival, Jury Prize at the Mumbai International Film Festival, and played at more than 30 festivals worldwide.

Murray is currently developing the series Cha Cha Cha! with Producer Jennifer Weiss—a dance dramedy in which a repressed Gen X woman seeks romance through Latin dance. She is also developing the psychological drama series My Lie based on the book by Meredith Maran. My Lie juxtaposes the mass panic of the Repressed Memory Movement of the late 1980s with a legal drama. Tapping into the cultural anxieties of the past, My Lie will deliver modern, edge-of-your-seat moral ambiguity.

Murray began directing music videos in the UK in the 1990s, as well as working on the BBC series Dance for the Camera. Murray has participated in the Berlinale Talent Campus, the Rotterdam Coproduction Market, IFP No Borders and the Ontario Creates International Financing Forum. Her short films have been shown at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, The Tate Gallery and ICA, London, and the Royal Cinema, Toronto.

She made her first documentary in 2000 with Train on the Brain (Channel 4 UK/TVO) in which she rode the rails across North America with a group of teenage hobos. She followed up with her first dramatic feature Mouth to Mouth, starring Oscar nominee Elliot Page (Best Feature, Brooklyn International Film Festival). Murray wrote and directed Carny for the Sundance Channel (Hot Docs, Best Documentary, Brooklyn International Film Festival). She also made the documentary Caprichosos De San Telmo (TIFF). As a dancer, Murray won the Buenos Aires Tango Championship with her partner Carlos Boeri.