Liz Canner

ISEA2020

Liz Canner is an award-winning filmmaker, digital artist and writer who often uses new narrative technology to create positive change projects. A prime example of this is her critically acclaimed public cyber art documentary Symphony of a City on the housing crisis. Her feature documentary Orgasm Inc. about the pharmaceutical industry and women’s health was a New York Times “Critic’s Pick”. Her work has played at over a 100 film festivals internationally, been theatrically released, broadcast on TV globally, and streamed on sites such as Sundance Now, Netflix internationally (“Most Popular” Critically Acclaimed Documentaries, 2011 & 2012) and Kanopy (“Most Popular” in 8 subjects 2018-19). A graduate of Brown University with Honors, she has received over 60 grants and honors including an NEA grant, the Dartmouth College Visionary Award and fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University.