BIOGRAPHY

Liz Marshall is an auteur filmmaker who fuses cinematic storytelling with social and environmental justice issues. Since the late 90s she has created award winning and socially relevant projects which focus on a range of significant global issues including the Right to Water; HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa; the rights of girls in developing countries; censorship affecting writers and journalists; war-affected children; corporate globalization; sweatshop labour, and refugees.

Additionally, she has enjoyed creating a body of arts-based shorts; music videos and music documentaries featuring celebrated dancers and musicians.

Liz's most recent film is WATER ON THE TABLE (2010), an award winning and Gemini nominated theatrical and broadcast documentary featuring Maude Barlow’s crusade to have water declared a right. Read the Canadian and US reviews. Buy the DVD.

THE GHOSTS IN OUR MACHINE (2011) is a feature length cross-platform documentary that sheds new light on the complex social issue of animal rights within the context of our voracious consumer driven world. Currently in production and scheduled for release in early 2013.

Marshall’s work has premiered for diverse audiences: Theatrically; for international broadcast; the 2006 International AIDS Conference in Toronto; 150 world leaders at the 2001 Winnipeg Conference on War-Affected Children; PEN International; Canadian Journalists for Freedom of Expression; international film festivals; grassroots activist groups around the world; for the Tragically Hip and 200,000 of their fans.

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