Liz Garbus
| Liz Garbus | |
|---|---|
 Liz Garbus | |
| Born | United States |
| Education | Brown University |
| Occupation | Film director, film producer |
| Spouse(s) | Dan Cogan |
| Parent(s) | Martin Garbus, Ruth Garbus |
Liz Garbus is an American documentary film director and producer. Her 2011 film, Bobby Fischer Against the World, opened the documentary section of that year's Sundance Film Festival, reserved for master American documentary filmmakers.[1] The same year she was nominated a second time for an Academy Award, for her film Killing in the Name, which she produced with her producing partner Rory Kennedy.[2] Garbus’ 2012 film, Love, Marilyn, internationally opened as a Gala Premiere at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival and aired on HBO summer of 2013.[3] In 2015 she directed What Happened, Miss Simone? a documentary about the singer Nina Simone. What Happened, Miss Simone? was the opening night film for Sundance Film Festival, it was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature 2015, a Grammy for Best Music Film 2015, and Garbus was nominated for a DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary. The film was released by Netflix on June 26, 2015. What Happened, Miss Simone? won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary.
Garbus is the daughter of attorney Martin Garbus and writer and therapist Ruth Meitin Garbus.. She graduated magna cum laude from Brown University in 1992.[4] In 1998, she co-founded an independent documentary production company, Moxie Firecracker Films, with fellow Brown University alum Rory Kennedy.[5]
She is a fellow of the Open Society's Center on Crime, Communities, and Culture.[4]
Career
In 1998, her film The Farm: Angola, USA was nominated for an Academy Award. The film garnered multiple awards including the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and two Emmy awards.[5] In 2002, Garbus' film The Execution of Wanda Jean was shown at the Sundance Film Festival.[5] The next year she directed The Nazi Officer's Wife, which was narrated by Susan Sarandon and Julia Ormond. In 2005 she collaborated with partner Rory Kennedy to executive-produce the Academy Award-nominated Street Fight about the 2002 Newark mayoral election. In 2006 the pair worked with actress Rosie Perez to produce her film Yo Soy Boricua.[6] Her other producing credits include Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, which premiered 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. The film follows four brain-injured patients receiving treatment at the JFK-Johnson Medical Facility in New Jersey. In 2009, Garbus’s film, Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech (HBO) premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and in 2011, There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane was chosen to be a part of HBO’s Documentary Films Summer Series.
In 2011, Garbus directed Bobby Fischer Against the World, which chronicled the great Cold War showdown between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky in 1972. The film premiered on HBO and opened the Premiere Documentary Section of the Sundance Film Festival. Also in 2011, Garbus was nominated for a second time for an Academy Award for her film Killing In the Name, which she produced with partner Rory Kennedy.
Garbus' 2012 film, Love, Marilyn featured Elizabeth Banks, Ellen Burstyn, Glenn Close, Viola Davis, Jennifer Ehle, Lindsay Lohan, Lili Taylor, Uma Thurman, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood and others reading from Monroe’s never-before-seen private writings. The film opened as a Gala Premiere at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival and was acquired by HBO for a 2013 debut.
A Good Job: Stories of the FDNY, which Garbus directed and produced, premiered on HBO in 2014 and featured first-hand accounts of veteran firefighters and interviews conducted by former FDNY member Steve Buscemi.
Garbus has also produced and directed multiple television specials for Lifetime, MTV, A&E, Discovery, Court TV, Sundance Channel, Oxygen, and other channels. She has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Rosie O'Donnell Show, The Charlie Rose Show, Good Morning America, Extra!, National Public Radio, the Sundance Channel, the Independent Film Channel, and CNN.
Partial filmography
| Year | Film | Director | Co-producer | Other | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | The Farm: Angola, USA | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2002 | The Execution of Wanda Jean | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2003 | Girlhood | Yes | Yes | ||
| The Nazi Officer's Wife | Yes | narrated by Susan Sarandon and Julia Ormond | |||
| 2005 | Street Fight | Yes | |||
| 2006 | Yo soy Boricua, pa'que tu lo sepas! | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2007 | Coma IV | Yes | |||
| Ghosts of Abu Ghraib | Yes | ||||
| 2009 | Shouting Fire: Stories from the Edge of Free Speech | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2010 | Killing in the Name | Yes | |||
| 2011 | Bobby Fischer Against the World | Yes | |||
| There's Something Wrong with Aunt Diane | Yes | Yes | |||
| 2012 | Love, Marilyn | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2013 | Before the Spring: After the Fall | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2014 | A Good Job: Stories of the FDNY | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2015 | What Happened, Miss Simone? | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2016 | Nothing Left Unsaid | Yes |
References
- ↑ Sundance.com
- ↑ Oscar.com
- ↑ The Hollywood Reporter
- 1 2 Forumonlawcultureandsociety.org
- 1 2 3 Featured artist: Liz Garbus, Center for Social Media.
- ↑ The New York Times
External links
- Moxie Firecracker Films
- Liz Garbus Biography on CharlieRose.com
- Liz Garbus at the Internet Movie Database
- Moxie Firecracker Films at the Internet Movie Database
- Liz Garbus at the Open Society
- "No Degrees of Separation", Brown Alumni Magazine
- Appearances on C-SPAN