LIZ NORD
Emmy-Winning Producer | Creative Executive | Content Strategist
SELECTED SPEAKING
SUNDANCE MASTER CLASSES (as producer and moderator): Doc Filmmaking: Navigating Truth and Ethics with Dawn Porter; Doc Filmmaking: Finding and Shaping Your Story with Roger Ross Williams; Designing and Blocking a Scene with Lesli Linka Glatter; Comedy Writing for Television with Jenny Bicks and more on Sundance Collab
NYU PRODUCTION LAB (as producer and moderator): Developing Your Film Festival Strategy; Meet the Talent Managers; Meet the Talent Agents; Inside Artist Labs, Fellowships, and Residencies; Documentary Grantwriting; Feature Film Development Workshops and more
What They Don't Teach You in Film School
Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema, Brooklyn, NY / NYU Tisch, New York, NY / Woodstock Filmmaker Residency, Woodstock, NY + more
Moderator: Scrappy Cinematography and Business Strategies for Cinematographers
DOCNYC PRO, New York, NY
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Moderator: Shifting Landscape of Indie Film Distribution
New York Film Festival Artist Academy, New York, NY
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Moderator: TERRITORY Case Study with director Alex Pritz and producer Gabriel Uchida and MIJA Case Study with director Isabel Castro
DOCNYC PRO, New York, NY​
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Moderator: Roundtable - My Short Film's Long Journey to Sundance
Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah
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Moderator: Industry 101 - You're In. Now What?
Humanitas Prize x Writers Guild Foundation (Virtual)
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Live Q&A With Director Steve James
Camden International Film Festival, Camden, ME
Multiplatform Strategies for Making Good Happen
SXSW (Film + Interactive), Austin, TX
Moderator: One Story Up Filmmaker Fireside Chat Series
Topic (Virtual)
Exploring Place with Cross-Platform Storytelling
SXSW (Film + Interactive), Austin, TX
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What Jerusalem Can Teach About Fighting a Culture War
TEDxDumbo, Brooklyn , NY
Art/Tech: Multiplatform Storytelling
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
Moderator: A Road Map to Getting Your Cross-Platform Documentary Made and Seen
Sheffield Doc/Fest, Sheffield, England
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Outside-the-Box Journalism
NYU Graduate School of Journalism, New York, NY
Social Media for Creative Professionals
Syracuse University Colab, Syracuse, NY
Please get in touch to have Liz speak, moderate a panel, or lead a workshop at your event about navigating the film & TV industry, feature film development, documentary filmmaking, multiplatform storytelling, emerging media trends, contemporary Jewish culture or...let's talk!
SELECTED WRITING
Selected issues of The Muse for Sundance Collab:
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Posts for No Film School
Posts for POV Digital​
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Some past favorites:
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'Search for Revelations': Invaluable Cinematography Advice from DP Kirsten Johnson
No Film School
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'Fire at Sea': How Gianfranco Rosi Made an Anti-Documentary
No Film School
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20+ Films You Need to Watch About Race in America
No Film School
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Make Your Audience Trip on Acid: Steps to Creating an Immersive VR Film
No Film School
6 Secrets from Legendary Collaborators Alfonso Cuarón and Emmanuel Lubezki
No Film School
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Why You Need To Know about Alma Har'el and Her Cosmic Doc 'Lovetrue'
No Film School
Tribeca Storyscapes 2015: Experimenting with Immersive Documentaries in that Awkward Headgear Phase
POV Digital
5 Things Documentary Filmmakers Can Learn from Game Designers
POV Digital
eJewish Philanthropy
Death and Taxes Magazine
Young Reporters, New Tools, and Political Reporting
Harvard Nieman Reports