Lizet Benrey

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Lizet Benrey
Lizet Benrey at San Diego Film Week 2019 (cropped).jpg
Benrey in 2019
Born
Mexico City, Mexico
NationalityMexican-American
Other names
  • Liz Benrey
  • Lizet Benrey-Fuller
Alma mater
Occupations
  • Painter
  • film director
  • actress
Known forArtwork displayed globally
SpouseFrancis Fuller
Children2
MotherShirley Chernitsky
Website lizetbenrey.com

Lizet Benrey is a Mexican-American painter, film director and actress whose artwork has been displayed worldwide at cultural institutions, art galleries and museums. She directed a documentary about Leonora Carrington and designed the Premio Corazon Award for the San Diego Latino Film Festival.

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Personal life

Benrey was born in Mexico City, Mexico to Shirley Chernitsky, who taught her how to paint. [1] [2] While attending Ibero-American University, she dated Alejandro González Iñárritu. [3] Benrey went to Boston University, studied printmaking at Palomar College [4] and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in visual arts at University of California San Diego. [3] [5] She married Francis Fuller and they had two children. [5]

Career

Benrey's work has been on display in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Asia and Europe. [6] She worked with producer Lucy Orozco, [5] [7] narrating a documentary about her own mother and directed a short film called Leonora and Gabriel: An Instant with painter Leonora Carrington, not long before Carrington died. [8] [9] Benrey said her work ethic was inspired by Julian Schnabel, [5] and family friends José Luís Cuevas, Carlos Nakatani and Lucinda Urrusti. [1] The only time Benrey exhibited with her mother was on an exhibition called Women Beyond Borders. [5]

In 2010, Benrey was a member of the selection committee at the San Diego Latino Film Festival [10] and designed their Premio Corazon Award. [6] In 2011, she introduced a screening of Cinco Días sin Nora at CSU San Marcos. [11]

Museum exhibitions

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
2005Shirley Chernitsky: El estallido de la imaginaciónHerselfAlso producer [5]
2009Hiram, Life and Rhythm—Writer, director, producer, cinematographer [5]
2011In Defense of Rodin Camille Claudel [5]
2012 Leonora and Gabriel: An Instant —Short film director, screened at San Diego Latino Film Festival, [8] Arlington International Film Festival, [17] Museo Nacional de Arte, Irish Museum of Modern Art
Tea in a Thunder CupVictim's Aunt
2017 Carving a Life Rehab Counselor [3]
NoticedRenataby Javier Augusto Nunez [3]
2018 The Witching Hour Mariela CallahanAlso co-writer and producer, featuring Thom Michael Mulligan and Kari Nissena [3]
2019 Carbon Kathleen James
2020Between Two MindsEmerson [18]

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