Liza Johnson (born December 13, 1970) is an American film director, producer, and writer.
Biography
Johnson was born in
Portsmouth
Portsmouth ( ) is a port and city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire in southern England. The city of Portsmouth has been a unitary authority since 1 April 1997 and is administered by Portsmouth City Council.
Portsmouth is the most dens ...
, Ohio, in 1970. She attended
Williams College
Williams College is a private liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts. It was established as a men's college in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams, a colonist from the Province of Massachusetts Bay who was kill ...
in
Williamstown, Massachusetts, graduating with a B.A. in Visual Arts in 1992. She then went to the
University of California, San Diego
The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego or colloquially, UCSD) is a public land-grant research university in San Diego, California. Established in 1960 near the pre-existing Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego is t ...
, where she received her MFA in 1995.
Her narrative shorts and experimental videos have screened in Berlin, Rotterdam, and many other international festivals and fine arts venues. Her video installations have been shown in Artists Space in New York, the ICA in Philadelphia, Cineboords in Rotterdam, and
Mass MoCA and
WCMA in Massachusetts. She has also published critical writing on art and film, and has curated a number of museum exhibitions and festival programs. Along with her collection of short films, Johnson has directed four feature films, including ''
Return'' (2011), ''
Hateship, Loveship'' (2013), and ''
Elvis & Nixon
''Elvis & Nixon'' is a 2016 American comedy-drama film directed by Liza Johnson and written by Joey Sagal, Hanala Sagal, and Cary Elwes. The film stars Michael Shannon as singer Elvis Presley and Kevin Spacey as President Richard Nixon, and fo ...
'' (2016).
Filmography
Feature films
Short films
Television shows
References
External links
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1970 births
American women film directors
Living people
Williams College alumni
American film directors
People from Portsmouth, Ohio
21st-century American women