Liz Miller
lmiller@redlizardmedia.com
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Works
Publications
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| 2004 |
Marvelous Resources, Director, Cinematographer,
Editor
work in progress
A feature length documentary about the conflicts born of water scarcity,
outdated public utilities, and the struggle between citizens and the
corporations vying to control this fundamental resource. http://www.marvelousresources.com
* Recipient of Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media
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| 2003 |
Water Postcards, Visual Artist
Water Postcards are a series of postcard art on the conflicting views
of water as human right versus water as commodity. These postcards are
visual headlines that emphasize the tension between conflicting perceptions
of water — valuable commodity, essential service, sacred resource,
human right. Catalogue.
Exhibition: Global Priority Show, Herter Gallery, Univ. of Mass
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| 2002 |
Novela , Novela, Director, Videographer, Editor
A 30-minute documentary about a group of Nicaraguan feminists who have
fused human rights with popular culture to create Nicaragua's most popular
telenovela (soap opera). Novela,Novela examines how this ground-breaking
series made it to broadcast, and how the creators, writers, actors and
viewers grappled with controversial themes like domestic violence and
homophobia. Project reviewed: BBC, NPR, and HBO latino.
US Distributor: Frameline / Television: Free Speech Television
Awards:
* Recipient of “Freedom Award,” Outfest, Los Angeles Film Festival
* Honorary Mention, 2003 International Association of Women in Radio &vTV
* Latin American Studies Association Award of Merit in Film
* Frameline Finishing Funds
Selected Screenings:
Provincetown Film Festival Provincetown
San Francisco International
Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
Out on Screen, Vancouver
KidFlix
Int’l Children’s
Film Festival
Florida New Festival, New York
Boston Women’s Festival
Kopkind Colony Film Series Reeling, Chicago
Women in the Director’s
Chair , Chicago
Mix Mexico / Mix Brazil / Miami International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
7th
International Gay Film Festival, Madrid
Cine Accion, San Francisco
Mostra Internacional de Cinema Gai Lesbic, Barcelona,
Spain
Image Out, Rochester
Milwaukee Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
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| 2000 |
Parkville Portraits Director, Videographer, Editor, Web Designer
Real Art Ways. Hartford, Connecticut
http://www.redlizardmedia.com/muc/index.html
Selected as a community artist by Artists and Communities: America Creates
for the Millennium - a nation wide project of the National Endowment
for the Arts and Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. Produced nine short video
portraits,
Parkville Portraits, screened before feature films in the Real
Art Ways Cinema. Portraits were projected on buildings throughout the community.
Project featured
on NPR.
Selected Screenings: Real Art Ways Cinema
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| 2000 |
It's Not Lie, Director, Videographer,
Editor
A five-minute short about
phonelines and fantasies.
Selected Screenings:
Sex on the Lawn 2: the Second Coming, Pasadena, Ca.
Identities Queer Film Festival, Vienna
Kino im Schulz, Germany
San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
New Festival, New York
London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival
Console-ing Passions Conference
Inside Out Toronto Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival
Flaming Film
Video Festival, Intermedia Arts
The Mix Film Festival,
NYC
Image & Nation Film Festival, Montreal
Pacific Film Archives
Fifth Annual Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
Women in the Directors Chair 6th Annual Pride Night, Chicago
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| 1999 |
Just Here, Executive
Producer/Director/Editor
The Ark, Troy New
York
Four youth, ages 14-17 from the Taylor Projects were hired to produce
a personal story and to learn to direct young actors. The result
is a 23 minute documentary,
Just Here.
US Distributor: Free Speech TV
Awards:
*Recipient of the Golden Apple Award of the National Educational Media
Network
*Recipient of Bronze award of the Columbus Int'l Film & Video Festival
Selected
Screenings:
Chicago International Children's Film Festival
Colombia County
Film
Festival Hope and Dreams Film Festival
Marco Island Film Festival
On Tour with Women in the Director’s Chair, Youth Program
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| 2000 |
New Technologies, New Incursions, New Voices
on the Internet Director, Videographer, Editor
Shot and Edited a five-minute bilingual video, New
Technologies, New Incursions, New Voices on the Internet, that documents the collective webcast of
FIRE with Latin American Radio Producers at the VIII Encuentro Feminista,
La Republica
Dominicana, Nov. 1999.
Television: Aired on television in Costa Rica.
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| 1999 |
Moles, Web Artist
Moles is a web narrative. http://www.redlizardmedia.com/moles/index.html
Awards:
* First place web award at THAW 00, Fifth Annual Festival of Video,
Film, &
Digital Media of the Institute for Cinema and Culture. 2000.
* Co-winner of Art and Science Collaboration,Inc. Digital 99 Competition
* 2nd place in the McKinney Writing Contest, 99
Gallery/ Museum Exhibitions:
* 2nd Annual Digital Art Exhibition of the New York Hall of Science
* Obsession exhibition at Goucher College
* Electronic Lounge of the art gallery Dominikanerkirche during
the European Media Art Festival
* Dream Centenary CG Grand Prix99 in Japan
* Brooks Gallery at The Cooper Union
Print/Web Publications:
* Stills published in art magazine, Simul - taneita, Italy, 99.
* Assemblage: The Women's Hypertext Gallery, 2000.
*Drunken Boat Winter/Spring 2001 - http://www.drunkenboat.com
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Water Risks Published artists
pages in Riesgo/Risk edition of FELIX, a journal of Media Arts and Communication,
2003.
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Betraying Amnesia: Portraying Ourselves: Video
Portraits by Latin American and Latino/a Artists, essay published
in the Photography Quarterly published by the Center for Photography
at Woodstock, #77, 2000. |
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