Lisa Biagiotti

Last updated
Lisa Biagiotti
Born (1979-08-20) August 20, 1979 (age 43)
NationalityAmerican
Education Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Fulbright Award
Occupation(s)Filmmaker
Journalist
Storyteller
Years active2007–present
Notable credit(s) Sundance Artist, deepsouth , Los Angeles Times
Website www.lisabiagiotti.com

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]

Contents

Career

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]

Awards

YearAwardOrganizationWorkAward CategoryResult
2001 Fulbright Award United States Department of State Research: Muslim immigration into ItalyStudy/ Research GrantWon [23]
2009 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights Crisis in Congo seriesInternational Television CategoryWon [24]
National News Emmy Award National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences War in Congo seriesBest Story in a Regularly Scheduled NewscastNominated [25]
2012SHOUT! LGBT Best DocumentarySidewalk Film FestivaldeepsouthBest DocumentaryWon [26]
Koronis Fest Special Filmmaker AwardSidewalk Film FestivaldeepsouthPublic HealthWon [27]
Best Documentary and
Audience Favorite		Outflix Film FestivaldeepsouthAwards for Best Documentary and Audience FavoriteWon [28]
2013
Award for Freedom Outfest Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival deepsouthSpecial Programming AwardWon [29]
Official Selection HRW Traveling Film Festival Human Rights Watch Film Festival deepsouthTraveling Film FestivalWon [30]
Award for Best Documentary FeaturePolari Film FestivaldeepsouthBest Documentary FeatureWon
Award for Best Feature Length DocumentaryPensacola LGBT Film Festival / ACLU of FloridadeepsouthBest Feature Length DocumentaryWon [31]
2014Most Captivating Voices of 2014HIV Equal Online MagazinedeepsouthTop 10 ListWon [32]
Livingston Award Livingston Awards for Young JournalistsdeepsouthNational ReportingNominated [33]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rory Kennedy</span> American filmmaker

Rory Elizabeth Katherine Kennedy is an American documentary filmmaker. Kennedy has made documentary films that center on social issues such as addiction, nuclear radiation, the treatment of prisoners-of-war, and the politics of the Mexican border fence. Her films have been featured on many television networks. She is the youngest child of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kirby Dick</span> American film director, producer, and screenwriter

Kirby Bryan Dick is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor best known for directing documentary films. He received Academy Award nominations for Best Documentary Feature for directing Twist of Faith (2005) and The Invisible War (2012). He has also received numerous awards from film festivals, including the Sundance Film Festival and Los Angeles Film Festival.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lauren Greenfield</span> American photographer and filmmaker

Lauren Greenfield is an American artist, documentary photographer, and documentary filmmaker. She has published four photographic monographs, directed four documentary features, produced four traveling exhibitions, and published in magazines throughout the world.

Maria Maggenti is an American film director and screenwriter for film and television, who has traditionally created independent films. She was the script editor for the American television series, Without a Trace (2003) and has written many episodes for the show as well, but is perhaps best known for her feature film, The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love (1995). Her film Puccini for Beginners was in competition at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2006. She was also an activist with ACT UP for many years.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">World of Wonder (company)</span> American production company known for its LGBTQ programming

World of Wonder Productions is an American production company founded in 1991 by filmmakers Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey. Based in Los Angeles, California, the company specializes in documentary television and film productions with a key focus on LGBTQ topics. Together, Bailey and Barbato have produced programming through World of Wonder for HBO, Bravo, HGTV, Showtime, the BBC, Netflix, MTV and VH1, with credits including the Million Dollar Listing docuseries, RuPaul's Drag Race, and the documentary films Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures (2016) and The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2000).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sundance Institute</span> American non-profit organisation

Sundance Institute is a non-profit organization founded by Robert Redford committed to the growth of independent artists. The institute is driven by its programs that discover and support independent filmmakers, theatre artists and composers from all over the world. At the core of the programs is the goal to introduce audiences to the artists' new work, aided by the institute's labs, granting and mentorship programs that take place throughout the year in the United States and internationally.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ry Russo-Young</span> American filmmaker

Ry Russo-Young is an American filmmaker and producer, originally from New York City. Her early independent work has been associated with the mumblecore genre, though she has gone on to direct the wide release features Before I Fall (2017) and The Sun Is Also a Star (2019) as well as the HBO documentary Nuclear Family and other film and television projects.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mark Benjamin</span> American documentary filmmaker

Mark Benjamin is an American documentary filmmaker best known for the Sundance TV series Brick City and the feature film Slam. His most recent television series, Chicagoland aired on CNN in 2014.

<i>Big Boys Gone Bananas!*</i> 2011 film by Fredrik Gertten

Big Boys Gone Bananas!* is a 2011 documentary film, directed by Fredrik Gertten. The film is about how Gertten's film company was sued by Dole for the 2009 documentary film Bananas!*. This lawsuit is a type of case known as a strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP).

Yoav Potash is a writer and filmmaker whose works include the documentaries Crime After Crime and Food Stamped.

Ian Olds is an American film director. His directing credits include the documentary Occupation: Dreamland, which follows the 1/505 company of the 82nd Airborne Division in Fallujah, Iraq in early 2004 during the Iraq War. Olds also created the documentary Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi, which depicts the working relationship between American journalist Christian Parenti and his Afghan colleague Ajmal Naqshbandi during the War in Afghanistan.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Andrew Ahn</span> American film director

Andrew Ahn is an American film director and screenwriter who has directed the feature films Spa Night (2016), Driveways (2019), and Fire Island (2022).

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nonny de la Peña</span> American journalist

Nonny de la Peña is an American journalist, documentary filmmaker, and entrepreneur.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alexandra Shiva</span> American film producer and director

Alexandra Elizabeth Shiva is an American film director. Bombay Eunuch is her 2001 award-winning film, and in 2015 she showed How to Dance in Ohio at the Sundance Film Festival in the US Documentary Competition. Shiva also founded a production studio called Gidalya Pictures.

<i>Deepsouth</i> 2012 American film

Deepsouth is a 2012 American documentary film about the neglected HIV/AIDS crisis in the rural American South. Beneath layers of history, poverty, and soaring HIV infections, three Americans redefine traditional Southern values to create their own solutions to survive.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mark Bailey (writer)</span> American writer based in Los Angeles

Mark Daniel Bailey is an American writer, best known for his documentary films, including Last Days in Vietnam (2014), Downfall: The Case Against Boeing (2022), and The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari (2022). Bailey, together with his wife, filmmaker Rory Kennedy, own Moxie Films, a documentary film production company. The company produces documentaries "for broadcast and cable networks, including Netflix, HBO, PBS, A&E, National Geographic, Showtime, Discovery Channel, MTV, TLC, Lifetime Television, the Oxygen Network, and the Sundance Channel as well as for educational foundations and philanthropic organizations."

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sabaah Folayan</span> American film maker

Sabaah Folayan is an American filmmaker and activist. Her debut documentary feature, Whose Streets?, on the 2014 Ferguson protests, premiered in competition at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Shalini Kantayya</span> American filmmaker and activist

Shalini Kantayya is an American filmmaker and environmental activist based in Brooklyn, New York, whose films explore human rights at the intersection of water, food, and renewable energy. Kantayya is best known for her debut feature documentary, Catching the Sun.

Marina Zenovich is an American filmmaker known for her biographical documentaries. Her films include LANCE, Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind, Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic and Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired, which won two Emmy awards.

Aaron I. Butler is an American film and television editor and producer.

References

  1. ↑ "On the Streets". Los Angeles Times . 5 March 2016. Retrieved 2016-06-01.
  2. ↑ "'deepsouth' official website". deepsouthfilm.com. Archived from the original on 2015-05-18. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  3. ↑ Sinclair, Kamal (2014-06-30). "New Frontier Artist Residency Program Launches". sundance.org. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  4. ↑ "Prof. Duy Linh Tu and Lisa Biagiotti '08 collaborate on 'deepsouth'". journalism.columbia.edu. 2012-07-20. Archived from the original on 2012-08-05. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  5. ↑ Kafka, Alexander C. (2012-07-24). "FILMMAKER INTERVIEW: Lisa Biagiotti". oxa.cjrwbeta.com. Archived from the original on 2015-05-18. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  6. ↑ Biagiotti, Lisa (2009-05-12). "Generations meet in Jamaica's Chinese cemetery". huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  7. ↑ Sinclair, Kamal (2014-06-30). "New Frontier Artist Residency Program Launches". sundance.org. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  8. ↑ Macaulay, Scott (2014-09-22). "43 Takeaways from Sundance Artist Services Day at the IFP Filmmaker Conference". filmmakermagazine.com. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  9. ↑ "Masterclass: Filming Outside Your Turf at DOC NYC 2013". docnyc.net. 2013-12-11. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  10. ↑ Stillman, Sarah (2014-04-07). "H.I.V.'s Grip on the American South". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  11. ↑ Vawda, Hassan (2013-04-29). "'deepsouth' An Interview with Lisa Biagiotti". Polarimagazine.com. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  12. ↑ Spiro, Stephanie (2014-12-01). "'deepsouth': An Interview With Filmmaker Lisa Biagiotti". huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  13. ↑ Stillman, Sarah (2014-04-07). "H.I.V.'s Grip on the American South". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  14. ↑ Hamblin, James (2013-06-19). "Staying Alive in the Rural South". theatlantic.com. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  15. ↑ Biagiotti, Lisa (2012-07-26). "AIDS--The South's Shame". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  16. ↑ Biagiotti, Lisa (2010-12-01). "AIDS in the Bible Belt". pbs.org. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  17. ↑ "'deepsouth' documentary explores challenges of fighting AIDS". scpr.org. 2014-12-23. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  18. ↑ Kafka, Alexander C. (2012-07-24). "FILMMAKER INTERVIEW: Lisa Biagiotti". oxa.cjrwbeta.com. Archived from the original on 2015-05-18. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  19. ↑ Heald, Rebecca (2013). "Strengthening the voices of the unheard". The Lancet Infectious Diseases. 13 (12): 1019. doi:10.1016/S1473-3099(13)70353-0.
  20. ↑ Biagiotti, Lisa (2014-12-01). "Same Virus, Different Disease: HIV in the American South". deepsouthfilm.com. Archived from the original on 2015-05-18. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  21. ↑ Sawyer, Peter (2010-08-17). "The World's Toilet Crisis". huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  22. ↑ "RFK Center Announces Winners of 2009 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards". rfkcenter.org. 2009. Archived from the original on 2015-05-18. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  23. ↑ "Fulbright and Other International Fellowship Award Recipients". scranton.edu. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  24. ↑ "RFK Center Announces Winners of 2009 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards". rfkcenter.org. Archived from the original on 2015-05-18. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  25. ↑ "Nominees for the 30th Annual News & Documentary EMMY® Awards Announced by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences". emmyonline.com. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  26. ↑ "Preview Feature Doc 'deepsouth' (On The New American Sout | Shadow and Act". Blogs.indiewire.com. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  27. ↑ "participates in Sidewalk Film Festival 2012". Koronisfest.org. Archived from the original on 2015-05-18. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  28. ↑ "Preview Feature Doc 'deepsouth' (On The New American Sout | Shadow and Act". Blogs.indiewire.com. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  29. ↑ "2013 Outfest Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival, July 11-21". Outfest.org. Archived from the original on 2013-06-14. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  30. ↑ "deepsouth | Human Rights Watch Film Festival". Ff.hrw.org. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  31. ↑ "2013 Pensacola LGBT Film Festival Opening Night". Aclufl.org. Archived from the original on 2015-05-18. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  32. ↑ Evans, Thomas (2014-12-04). "Online's Most Captivating Voices of 2014: Lisa Biagiotti". HIVequal.org. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
  33. ↑ "Livingston Awards finalists move to final round of judging | University of Michigan News". Ns.umich.edu. 2014-05-01. Retrieved 2015-05-07.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.