Liz Canning

Education

Equipment

My Equipment/Kit: 2 GoPro Heroes, 2 Panansonic Lumix GH5s (4K), Canon EOS 6D DSLR, DJI Osmo Handheld Gimbal 4K Camera, Mac Pro with Adobe Premiere Pro, Photoshop and After Effects.

I can use: Canon Eos 6D Dslr, 2 Panansonic Lumix Gh5S (4K), Dji Osmo Handheld Gimbal 4K Camera, 2 Gopro Heroes, Mac Pro With Adobe Premiere Pro, Photoshop And After Effects.

About me

Liz Canning is an Emmy and Sundance Award-winning filmmaker with 30 years’ experience. Her work has screened internationally, winning a 2021 LA Emmy Award (“Could Empowering Girls Transform the World?," director) and a 2006 Sundance Special Jury Prize (American Blackout, editor).

Liz's feature directorial debut, MOTHERLOAD, has screened at over 500 venues globally, is subtitled in 10 languages, and won multiple awards and rave reviews in publications like Outside Magazine. MOTHERLOAD won the San Francisco Green Film Festival’s Audience Award and Best Director, Best International Documentary and Best Sound Design at the Hollywood North Film Festival. The Better Cities Film Festival gave MOTHERLOAD their HERO Award for: “a film that is more than a film, but part of a movement. Where the film itself is not just telling the story but becomes a player in the story. The only other film we've given the Hero Award to was Biggest Little Farm. … Good company.” Liz and MOTHERLOAD were invited by The Napa Valley Film Festival to participate in to week-long Artist in Residence program.

After graduating from Brown University’s Department of Modern Culture and Media in with a degree in Semiotics, Liz Canning moved to San Francisco to collaborate with fellow Brown alum and award-winning filmmaker Jon Moritsugu on three of his feature films: Hippy Porn, Mod F*** Explosion, and the ITVS-funded Terminal USA. Liz's 1995 short, Handmirror/Brush Set Included was broadcast on PBS and at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. The 2007 doc, Girls Rock!, featured four animated montage segments created by Liz to demonstrate cultural forces affecting young girls and was released in theaters nationwide.

In the 90’s Liz created video installations and curated film screenings at Artists Television Access, while teaching, writing and directing the film festival at Film Arts Foundation. From removed , Liz edited a wide range of commercial formats - from 15-second spots to half-hour episodes and 90-minute concerts - for clients such as PG & E, Levi’s,The Northface, Current TV, Bare Minerals. Inc, Oxygen TV, Cytosport, Mekanism, Visa, and Kontent Films.

In 2019 Liz was hired by Link TV to launch Global Mosaic, a new series based on the Peabody Award-winning Mosaic program. Liz was Director/Host/Producer/ Writer/Editor/Camera/Animator on episode 1, "Could Empowering Girls Transform the World?," which aired on Link TV and PBS several times and won a 2021 LA Emmy Award.

More info at https://www.motherload-films.com
More about the feature doc MOTHERLOAD at https://motherloadmovie.com
References:
Geralyn Pezanoski, Producer
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Blaise Panfalone, Producer
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Tasha Nesbitt, Producer
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Denise Bostrom, Story Editor
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License & Passport

Skills

Secondary Job Title	Video Editor
Job Titles	Video Editor, Script Writer, Writer, Script Editor, Director, Producer, Videographer
Years in industry	6+ years