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June, 2008 Liz is directing a one-hour documentary for the series Rawside on the Independent Film Channel. It is an intimate, quirky and artsy, behind-the-scenes film with Canada’s legendary indie-soul-funk-rock band The Bourbon Tabernacle Choir. The original members are coming together (13 years later) to headline the 25th anniversary of this summer’s Hillside Music Festival.

Liz and fellow filmmakers Leslie Thomas and Elizabeth Etue are in production on a documentary about women in politics. They have just completed their first monumental shoot in Nairobi, Kenya.

May, 2008 Grandmothers: The Unsung Heroes of Africa, a film directed by Liz for the Stephen Lewis Foundation, was included in the Silver Screen Arts Festival. Read more about it here.

April, 2008 Liz is directing a documentary for broadcaster MTV, in partnership with NGO Plan Canada, about teenage girls in conflict regions around the world. Issues include: Young women who face gender abuse on the streets of Port-au-Prince, and in Haiti’s corrupt prison system. Young women striving to make a difference within the conflict region of Tumaco, Colombia – the troubled heart of the drug cartel. Young women in Juba, South Sudan who are growing up within the ‘new Sudan’. They are advocates for girls’ access to education beyond primary school, and are against forced early marriage. This documentary goes to air in the fall of 2008.

Liz’s little music film Mawal Saba features the beautiful and talented Maryem Hassan Tollar, and it is produced by Leslie Thomas, shot by Chris Romieke, edited by Steven Budd, with text design by Warren Brown. If you missed its premier at Nuit Blanche last fall, then come see Fresh Canadian Talent, a screening of 18 music based shorts presented as part of the 2008 ReelWorld Film Festival. Where: Cineplex Odeon Carlton, 20 Carlton Street, Toronto When: Friday, April 4 at 11:00 pm A list of festival programming can be found at www.reelworld.ca.

February, 2008 As part of Black History month, two of Liz Marshall’s films for the Stephen Lewis Foundation will premier at Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa on February 13, 2008. A Generation of Orphans follows six orphans in Africa and the grassroots organizations working valiantly on their behalf, while Women: The Face of AIDS traces the stories of five courageous HIV-positive women in sub-Saharan Africa. Click here for more event details.

October, 2007 This October, Walrus Magazine online presented a photo essay by Liz Marshall entitled A Portrait of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. Click here to view the essay and photo slideshow.

Women: The Face of AIDS premiered in Vancouver on October 18, 2007 at the Ridge Theatre. This half hour documentary is the third film in a trilogy about HIV and AIDS that Liz Marshall directed and co-produced for the Stephen Lewis Foundation. For more information, visit www.stephenlewisfoundation.org. See also: Marshall concludes AIDS trilogy (Playback Magazine, September 24, 2007)

September, 2007 Director Liz Marshall and Producer Leslie Thomas thank everyone who attended the premiere of Maryem Tollar’s latest music video, Mawal Saba, from her album Book of Life, which was part of the curated program of CTVglobemedia's Bravo!FACT shorts at Scotiabank Nuit Blanche in Toronto on September 29-30, 2007.

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