Lilibet Foster is an American director, producer and writer. Her non-fiction films have won the Independent Spirit: Truer Than Fiction Award and been nominated for Best Film of the Year by the

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Biography

Foster graduated from

Kent School Kent School is a private, co-educational, college preparatory boarding school in Kent, Connecticut, United States. Frederick Herbert Sill established the school in 1906. It is affiliated with the Episcopal Church of the United States. Acade ...

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in 1982 and

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

. She produced the documentary ''

Speaking in Strings ''Speaking in Strings'' is a 1999 documentary film directed by Paola di Florio. The film is based on the life of Italian-born violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, and it received a nomination for Best Feature Documentary Film at the 72nd Academy Aw ...

'', which received a Best Documentary nomination at the

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in 2000 and won several other awards. ''Speaking in Strings'' premiered in competition at the 1999

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. She produced the feature documentary '' Soul in the Hole''. It won the Independent Spirit: Truer Than Fiction Award (tied with ''

Fast, Cheap & Out of Control ''Fast, Cheap & Out of Control'' is a 1997 documentary film by filmmaker Errol Morris. Summary The film profiles four subjects with extraordinary careers: Dave Hoover, a wild-animal tamer; George Mendonça, a topiary gardener at Green Animals ...

'') and was nominated for an IDA Award. Foster has directed, produced, and written documentaries for major broadcasters such as

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("Earth 2050: Fueling the Future"),

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(''Marshall: Thirty Years Later''),

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(''Operation Fine Girl: Rape Used as a Weapon of War''), A&E (''Biography Joe DiMaggio & Muhammad Ali'') and

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(''American Cinema: Film in the Television Age''). She directed and produced the multi-camera documentary and adaptation of

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's stage performance ''A Patriot Act.'' as well as segments for

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. Foster directs branded content for brands such as

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, Shell,

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, and

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, with the production company, Radical Media, for which she has won an honorary

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. She directs

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s for such organizations as

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Acumen Fund Acumen (formerly known as Acumen Fund, legally Acumen Fund, Inc.) is a nonprofit impact investment fund focused on investing in social enterprises that serve low-income individuals in United States. Acumen was founded in April 2001 by Jacqueline ...

, and

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. Foster is from the U.S. Virgin Islands. She is a principal of Asphalt Films Entertainment in

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and co-founder the Soul in the Hole Foundation that assists at-risk teenagers.

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