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Liz Miller. Producer, Director, Videographer, Editor
Liz Miller, MFA, is a professor and director of
documentary films. She directed, shot, and edited the inspiring half hour
documentary Novela, Novela, which profiles a group of passionate
women who have created the very first social soap opera in Nicaragua.
The documentary won the Freedom Award at Outfest in Los Angeles,
received a Merit in Film from the Latin American Studies Association,
won second place at the 2003 International Association of Women in
Radio and TV Conference as well as the Women's Human Rights Award
from Media That Matters. Artists and Communities: America Creates
for the Millennium, a nationwide project of the National Endowment
for the Arts, commissioned Liz to create a series of community portraits
that were screened in the Real Art Ways Cinema and featured on NPR.
Lewis
Cohen- Senior Consulting Editor
Lewis Cohen, MFA, is a Montreal-based director of
documentary series, features, and music videos. He wrote and directed
the Emmy Award winning thirteen-part television series Cirque du Soleil:
Fire Within, which won the 2003 Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Nonfiction
Program, and two Gemini Awards including Best Direction in a Documentary
Series. Cohen's provocative debut documentary Road Stories for the Flesh-Eating
Future, competed at HotDocs 2000 and for a Best Director Gemini Award,
won the Bronze Award at Worldfest Houston, as well as earning the Development
Canada Prize at Montreal's Festival Téléscience. Cohen has
also directed several cutting-edge music videos, a series of innovative
short films for the video magazine Channel Zero, and designed the multimedia
extravaganza for Cirque du Soleil's "Tribute to Special Effects"
at the 74th Annual Academy Awards, earning an Emmy nomination for Outstanding
Multi-Camera Picture Editing. Cohen has just released Lovesick, a feature
documentary about the lives of several Las Vegas performers in Cirque
du Soleil's erotic cabaret Zumanity.
Yael
Bitton - Editor
Yael Bitton has worked on numerous feature and documentary films as assistant
director, researcher, and editor. Her most recent film, Not for Sale
(2003) documents the impact of gentrification on the lives of old time
residents on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and will be aired on PBS
in June.
