Liz Canner
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Liz Canner is an award winning American
filmmaker
who makes documentaries, digital public art installations and new media projects on human rights issues. She often employs cutting edge technologies to explore social issues from a new perspective. A prime example of this is her critically acclaimed public cyber art documentary "Symphony of a City". Her documentary Deadly Embrace: Nicaragua, The World Bank and the IMF (1995), was one of the first films to look critically at the effects of the International Monetary Fund
, World Bank
policy and globalization
. In 2009 Canner directed Orgasm Inc.
: The Strange Science of Female Pleasure (2009), a feature length investigative documentary on the pharmaceutical industry and women's health.
Canner is the founder and director of Astrea Media,Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating media projects on human rights issues.
Canner graduated with Honors in Anthropology and Visual Arts from Brown University in1991. She has been the recipient of over 50 awards, honors and grants for her work including a Rockefeller Foundation
Next Generation Leadership Fellowship for "creating innovative media projects that strengthen democracy" , a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, a Radcliffe Institute (Bunting) Film/Video Fellowship from Harvard University and the Visionary Award from Dartmouth College.
A native of Massachusetts, Canner lives in Vermont, with her husband, Dr. Alex Barnett
. She previously lived with writer Pagan Kennedy
in a set-up they have described as similar to a Boston marriage
.
Newsweek interview with Liz Canner about Orgasm Inc.
United States
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filmmaker
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
who makes documentaries, digital public art installations and new media projects on human rights issues. She often employs cutting edge technologies to explore social issues from a new perspective. A prime example of this is her critically acclaimed public cyber art documentary "Symphony of a City". Her documentary Deadly Embrace: Nicaragua, The World Bank and the IMF (1995), was one of the first films to look critically at the effects of the International Monetary Fund
International Monetary Fund
The International Monetary Fund is an organization of 187 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world...
, World Bank
World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programmes.The World Bank's official goal is the reduction of poverty...
policy and globalization
Globalization
Globalization refers to the increasingly global relationships of culture, people and economic activity. Most often, it refers to economics: the global distribution of the production of goods and services, through reduction of barriers to international trade such as tariffs, export fees, and import...
. In 2009 Canner directed Orgasm Inc.
Orgasm Inc.
Orgasm Inc. is the first feature documentary by award-winning director Liz Canner. It premiered at the Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival....
: The Strange Science of Female Pleasure (2009), a feature length investigative documentary on the pharmaceutical industry and women's health.
Canner is the founder and director of Astrea Media,Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating media projects on human rights issues.
Canner graduated with Honors in Anthropology and Visual Arts from Brown University in1991. She has been the recipient of over 50 awards, honors and grants for her work including a Rockefeller Foundation
Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation is a prominent philanthropic organization and private foundation based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City. The preeminent institution established by the six-generation Rockefeller family, it was founded by John D. Rockefeller , along with his son John D. Rockefeller, Jr...
Next Generation Leadership Fellowship for "creating innovative media projects that strengthen democracy" , a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, a Radcliffe Institute (Bunting) Film/Video Fellowship from Harvard University and the Visionary Award from Dartmouth College.
A native of Massachusetts, Canner lives in Vermont, with her husband, Dr. Alex Barnett
Alex Barnett (mathematician)
Dr. Alex Barnett is a distinguished applied mathematician and musician who teaches mathematics at Dartmouth College. He is well known for his high frequency eigenfunction calculations which are some of the fastest in the world. He attended Cambridge University and received his Ph.D in theoretical...
. She previously lived with writer Pagan Kennedy
Pagan Kennedy
Pagan Kennedy is an author and pioneer of the 1990s zine movement, along with writer/publishers like Lisa Crystal Carver of Rollerderby, Jim Goad of ANSWER Me! and Larry Crane of Tape Op. Her autobiographical zine Pagan's Head detailed her life...
in a set-up they have described as similar to a Boston marriage
Boston marriage
Boston marriage as a term is said to have been in use in New England in the decades spanning the late 19th and early 20th centuries to describe two women living together, independent of financial support from a man. The term was little known until the debut in 2000 of the David Mamet play of the...
.
Films
- Orgasm, Inc. (2009) http://www.orgasminc.org
- Deadly Embrace: Nicaragua, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (1995) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112824/
- State of Emergency: Inside the LAPD (1993) (Co-Director Julia Meltzer) http://www.twn.org/catalog/pages/cpage.aspx?rec=697&card=price
- Busting the Hype on the LA Riots (1993) (Co-Director Julia Meltzer)
- Hands on the Verdict: The 1992 LA Uprising (1992) (Co-coordinating Producer Julia Meltzer) http://www.njcu.edu/programs/taebmff/bmff/bmfftitl.html
Digital public art documentary projects
- Hidden Tribe (2006) http://www.astreamedia.org/hiddentribe/
- Bridges (2004) http://savageminds.org/2005/11/07/margaret-mead-highlights-and-a-brief-rant/
- Moving Visions (2003) http://www.arlingtonarts.org/cultural-affairs/public-art-in-arlington/temporary-installations.aspx
- Symphony of a City (2001) (Co-director John Ewing) [www.symphonyofacity.org]
Anti-ad films
- Krafty (1999) (with the Anti-ad Agency)http://www.stg.brown.edu/conferences/fromtoday/participants.html
- SUV (1998) (with the Anti-ad Agency)
- Nike (1998) (with the Anti-ad Agency)http://search.boston.com/local/Search.do?s.sm.query=Nike+%22Liz+Canner%22&s.tab=
Newsweek interview with Liz Canner about Orgasm Inc.