Liz Garbus is an award-winning documentary film director and producer. Her most recent film, Bobby Fischer Against the World

Bobby Fischer Against the World

Bobby Fischer Against the World is the first documentary feature to explore the life of the late chess Grandmaster and 11th World Champion Bobby Fischer from USA. It incorporates interviews with chess players Anthony Saidy, Larry Evans, Sam Sloan, Susan Polgar, Garry Kasparov, Asa Hoffmann,...

, opened the Premiere Documentary Section of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, reserved for master American documentary filmmakers.

In January 2011 Garbus was nominated for her second Academy Award, for her film Killing in the Name

Killing in the Name (film)

Killing in the Name is a 2010 documentary film on Islamic terrorism. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary at the 83rd Academy Awards on January 25, 2011 but lost to Strangers No More....

, which she produced with her partner Rory Kennedy.

Past Work

In 1998, Garbus' film The Farm: Angola, USA

The Farm: Angola, USA

The Farm: Angola, USA is a 1998 award-winning documentary set in America's infamous maximum security prison in Angola, Louisiana. It was produced by Jonathan Stack and Liz Garbus and directed by Stack, Garbus, and Wilbert Rideau....

was nominated for an Academy Award. The Farm was awarded with prizes including the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and two Emmy awards. In 2002, Garbus' film The Execution of Wanda Jean was shown at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2003 she directed The Nazi Officer's Wife, which was narrated by Susan Sarandon

Susan Sarandon

Susan Sarandon is an American actress. She has worked in films and television since 1969, and won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the 1995 film Dead Man Walking. She had also been nominated for the award for four films before that and has received other recognition for her...

 and Julia Ormond

Julia Ormond

Julia Karin Ormond is an English actress who has appeared in film and television and on stage.-Early life and education:...

. 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 . Her other producing credits include Ghosts of Abu Ghraib

Ghosts of Abu Ghraib

Ghosts of Abu Ghraib is a 2007 documentary film directed by Rory Kennedy. It is an examination of the events of the 2004 Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal. The film premiered January 19, 2007 at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival....

, 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

New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...

.

Moxie Firecracker Films

In 1998, Garbus co-founded Moxie Firecracker Films, Inc., an independent documentary production company, with fellow Brown University

Brown University

Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...

graduate, Rory Kennedy. 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.

External links

• Liz Garbus filmography IMDB
• Moxie Firecracker
• Liz Garbus
• Liz Garbus biography
• No Degrees of Separation, Brown Alumni Magazine