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Liz Garbus

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Liz Garbus is an award-winning documentary film director and producer. Her most recent film, Bobby Fischer Against the World, opened the Premiere Documentary Section of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, reserved for master American documentary filmmakers. [1]

In January 2011 Garbus was nominated for her second Academy Award, for her film Killing in the Name, which she produced with her partner Rory Kennedy. [2]

Past Work

In 1998, Garbus' film The Farm: Angola, USA was nominated for an Academy Award. The Farm was awarded with prizes including the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and two Emmy awards.[3] In 2002, Garbus' film The Execution of Wanda Jean was shown at the Sundance Film Festival.[3] In 2003 she directed The Nazi Officer's Wife, which was narrated by Susan Sarandon and Julia Ormond. In 2005 Garbus collaborated with partner Rory Kennedy to Executive-Produce the Academy Award-nominated Street Fight. In 2006 the pair worked with Director Rosie Perez to producer her film Yo Soy Boricua [4]. Her other producing credits include Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, which premièred at Sundance and won an Emmy for Outstanding Non-Fiction Special of 2007. In 2007 Garbus directed the film Coma, which aired on HBO in July of that year. It is about the experiences of four brain-injured patients receiving treatment at the JFK-Johnson Medical Facility in New Jersey.

Moxie Firecracker Films

In 1998, Garbus co-founded Moxie Firecracker Films, Inc., an independent documentary production company, with fellow Brown University graduate, Rory Kennedy.[3] Garbus graduated Magna Cum Laude from Brown University in 1992 and is a Fellow of the Open Society's Center on Crime, Communities, and Culture. [5]


References

  1. ^ http://sundance.slated.com/2011/films/bobbyfischeragainsttheworld_sundance2011
  2. ^ http://oscar.go.com/nominations/category/documentary-short-subject/synopsis/killing-in-the-name/687119
  3. ^ a b c Featured artist: Liz Garbus, Center for Social Media.
  4. ^ http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/348237/Yo-Soy-Boricua-Pa-que-Tu-Lo-Sepas-/overview
  5. ^ http://www.forumonlawcultureandsociety.org/biography/liz-garbus

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