What's New

July 2010

Water On The Table DVD Available

The Water On The Table DVD will be available in retail locations across Canada as of October 19th.

Click here to learn more, and to securely Pre-Order the Retail and/or the Educational DVD
via Paypal on the SHOP page: http://www.wateronthetable.com/shop/

July 2010

Griffin Poetry for 10 Years

Happy 10th year anniversary Griffin Poetry Prize. Chin Chin.
For the last decade, LizMars Productions has produced the documentation
of the Griffin Poetry shortlisted readings and awards for The Griffin Trust.

June 2010

The Real G8/G20: A Civil Society Response

Liz spearheaded The Real G8/G20: A Civil Society Response website in response to the mainstream media coverage of the G20 protests. Mainstream media failed to report the real issues that  motivated thousands of people to protest the G20 Summit in Toronto. The website is a content-rich forum for citizen media: video, film, photography and editorial works by artists, activists, social justice organizations and independent media.

June 2010

LizMars completes doc for new campaign

LizMars produced a 20-minute documentary for NDEAM Canada.
Directed by Andrea Cohen, edited by Nathan Shields, shot by Jeremy Lyall and Alex Oktan, production managed by Chanda Chevannes, with an original score by New Moon Music: Jennifer Moore & Mark Shannon.

The documentary will help launch the national campaign
to make October National Disability Employment Awareness Month.

May 2010

Kinosmith & Water On The Table

KINOSMITH Distribution and Water On The Table have joined forces
for a Theatrical & DVD Release in Canada.

Stay tuned!

February 2010

Directing Holmes Inspection

Liz is directing for the Holmes Inspection series.

January 2010

Water On The Table

Liz has launched the trailer for Water On The Table. Watch it here.
Tune into the TVO broadcast premiere on The View From Here, March 24th, 2010 @ 10pm.

For other future screenings, go the Water On The Table website.

November 2009

Female Eye Film Festival screenings

Liz Marshall’s film The Weight of Memory (2001) features acclaimed dancer and choreographer Peggy Baker. It is a dramatic experimental dance film that commemorates the 14 women killed in the Montreal Massacre in 1989. Liz’s short music film Mawal Saba(2007) is an Arabic lament featuring Egyptian chanteuse Maryem Tollar. Both films will be screened at a Female Eye Film Festival event in memory of the December 6th, 1989 Montreal Massacre.

When: Sunday, December 6, 2009.
Where: National Film Board of Canada, 150 John Street, Toronto
The Weight of Memory will be screened in the program showing from 12:00 to 1:30pm
Mawal Saba will be screened in the program showing from 3:30 to 4:30 pm

For more information, go to www.FemaleEyeFilmFestival.com

March 2009

Stuck

Liz Marshall was the series director on Stuck, season 2. A 13 part 1/2 hr series produced by 52 Media Inc.

It premiered Wednesday, March 4th at 10 pm on the W Network. Read the press release here.

For more information, visit 52 Media’s Web site: www.52media.ca/stuck2/index.html.

March 2009

Bravo!FACT Presents screening of Mawal Saba

Maryem Tollar’s music video, Mawal Saba, directed by Liz Marshall, will be airing on an upcoming special episode of “Bravo!FACT Presents” celebrating the Juno Awards at 7:30 pm ET/4:30 pm PT, Sunday, March 22, 2009 on Bravo!

The episode will be rerun at 8:00 pm ET/5:00 pm PT Friday, March 27 on Bravo! It will also air on ‘A’ in Victoria BC on Saturday, March 28 at 11:00 pm local time, and in Ontario on ‘A’ in Barrie, London, Windsor, and Wingham on Saturday, March 28 at 6:30 pm local time. (All airdates are subject to change; please check local listings.)

November 2008

The Weight of Memory

Liz Marshall’s film The Weight of Memory (2001) features acclaimed dancer and choreographer Peggy Baker. It is a dramatic experimental dance film that commemorates the 14 women killed in the Montreal Massacre in 1989. The film will be screened at a Female Eye Film Festival event in memory of the December 6th, 1989 Montreal Massacre. The screening will take place in the auditorium of the National Film Board of Canada in Toronto.

When: Saturday, December 6, 2008.
The Weight of Memory will be screened in the program showing from 11:00am – 12:00pm
Where: National Film Board of Canada, 150 John Street, Toronto

For more information, go to www.FemaleEyeFilmFestival.com

November 2008

Griffin Poetry Prize

Liz Marshall and editor Steven Budd created the Griffin Poetry Prize annual reading audio and video segments. Liz and her team (sound veteran Doug Kaye and tv camera veteran Pat Pidgeon)  have documented the Griffin Trust’s shortlisted poet readings and awards since 2001. Click here for the 2008 readings.

November 2008

Episode 6 – The Rawside Of …The Bourbon Tabernacle Choir (reunion)

Episode 6 – The Rawside Of … The Bourbon Tabernacle Choir (reunion)
Premiering Tuesday December 2nd at 8pm ET / 5pm PT on IFC Canada
Directed by Liz Marshall

After ten years and thousands of shows, Canada’s best bar band called it quits in 1995.

Now, after a thirteen year hiatus, singer/songwriter Chris Brown must try to put The Bourbon Tabernacle Choir back together for one last gig at the renowned Hillside Music Festival in Guelph, Ontario.

Read the press release here. Check out the trailer here.

November 2008

Girls of Latitude

MTV Documentary GIRLS OF LATITUDE Explores the Lives of Girls in Haiti, Colombia, and Sudan.
Premiering Thursday, November 13 at 9:30 p.m. ET on MTV and Friday, November 14 at 1 p.m. ET on CTV.

This MTV original special follows hosts Nicole Holness, Diane Salema, and Aliya-Jasmine Sovani as they encounter young leaders affecting positive change. GIRLS OF LATITUDE is a celebration of women and their power to make the world a better place.

Executive Producer is Faith Feingold. Producers are Tamara Dawit and Steve Theobald. Director is Liz Marshall. Director of Photography is Steve Cosens. Editor is Steven Budd. Composers are Mark Shannon and Jennifer Moore.

Read more about the documentary at www.mtv.ca/girls. Read the press release here.

May 2008

Grandmothers: The Unsung Heroes of Africa

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

Mawal Saba at Fresh Canadian Talent

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

Black History month screenings

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

A Portrait of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa

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.

September 2007

Women: The Face of AIDS

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)

May 2007

Mawal Saba

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.