Lisa Biagiotti | |
|---|---|
| Born | August 20, 1979 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Fulbright Award |
| Occupation(s) | Filmmaker Journalist Storyteller |
| Years active | 2007–present |
| Notable credit(s) | Sundance Artist, deepsouth , Los Angeles Times |
| Website | www |
Lisa Biagiotti (born August 20, 1979) is a filmmaker and journalist based in Los Angeles. She is the director and on-camera correspondent of On the Streets, a Los Angeles Times 12-part series and 72-minute feature documentary on homelessness in Southern California. [1] She directed and produced deepsouth , an independent documentary about poverty, HIV/AIDS and LGBT issues in the rural American South. [2] Biagiotti is a Fulbright Scholar and a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. [3] [4] She is of Italian descent from her father and Hakka Chinese Jamaican descent from her mother. [5] [6]
Biagiotti is an inaugural Fellow in the Sundance New Frontier Artist Residency program in partnership with The Social Computing Group at MIT Media Lab. [7] She speaks publicly about digital journalism, and independently producing and self-distributing films. [8] [9]
For her independent documentary deepsouth, Biagiotti spent two-and-a-half years reporting, driving 13,000 miles and interviewing more than 400 people. [10] [11] She was invited across rural America on a 150-stop grassroots film tour, and was invited to discuss the domestic epidemic at The White House and Clinton Global Initiative. [12] Biagiotti's work has been featured in The New Yorker , [13] The Atlantic , [14] Los Angeles Times , [15] PBS, [16] NPR, [17] Oxford American , [18] and The Lancet. [19] She writes about her 5-year journey of making the film in her Director’s Statement titled Same Virus, Different Disease. [20]
Biagiotti is the producer of The World’s Toilet Crisis, an hour-long documentary that aired on the Vanguard series of Current TV in 2010. [21] She produced short video series for the nightly newscast Worldfocus on WNET on under-reported topics covering homophobia in the Caribbean and the humanitarian crisis in eastern Congo—the latter was awarded a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for International Television. [22]
| Year | Award | Organization | Work | Award Category | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | Fulbright Award | United States Department of State | Research: Muslim immigration into Italy | Study/ Research Grant | Won [23] |
| 2009 | Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award | Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights | Crisis in Congo series | International Television Category | Won [24] |
| National News Emmy Award | National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences | War in Congo series | Best Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast | Nominated [25] | |
| 2012 | SHOUT! LGBT Best Documentary | Sidewalk Film Festival | deepsouth | Best Documentary | Won [26] |
| Koronis Fest Special Filmmaker Award | Sidewalk Film Festival | deepsouth | Public Health | Won [27] | |
| Best Documentary and Audience Favorite | Outflix Film Festival | deepsouth | Awards for Best Documentary and Audience Favorite | Won [28] | |
| 2013 | |||||
| Award for Freedom | Outfest Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival | deepsouth | Special Programming Award | Won [29] | |
| Official Selection HRW Traveling Film Festival | Human Rights Watch Film Festival | deepsouth | Traveling Film Festival | Won [30] | |
| Award for Best Documentary Feature | Polari Film Festival | deepsouth | Best Documentary Feature | Won | |
| Award for Best Feature Length Documentary | Pensacola LGBT Film Festival / ACLU of Florida | deepsouth | Best Feature Length Documentary | Won [31] | |
| 2014 | Most Captivating Voices of 2014 | HIV Equal Online Magazine | deepsouth | Top 10 List | Won [32] |
| Livingston Award | Livingston Awards for Young Journalists | deepsouth | National Reporting | Nominated [33] |