BIO. Liz Nord is a documentary filmmaker who has produced and shown work in Europe, the Middle East and throughout North America. In 2009, she shot a short documentary on-location in Haiti for musician Wyclef Jean’s charitable organization, Yele Haiti. In 2008, she ran MTV's Street Team '08—an Emmy Award-winning project wherein 51 state-based citizen journalists covered the 2008 presidential elections from a youth perspective, across all media platforms: web, mobile, broadcast and virtual. This effort contributed to the most influential youth vote in U.S. history.

In 2006, she toured the world with her critically acclaimed film about rebellious young Israelis, “Jericho’s Echo: Punk Rock in the Holy Land”. When she’s not gallivanting around the globe with film projects, she is a media educator, lecturer, and columnist. Liz moved to New York from the San Francisco Bay Area, where she ran an organization teaching filmmaking skills and media literacy to underserved youth. She also served on the Board of Directors of the Bay Area Women in Film and TV.

Remember the days when idealistic internet startups hired college freshmen as their lead designers because they knew how to use Photoshop? Liz was one of those designers, at the first internet commerce company. A lot has happened to her since then. See chart:

Boston University
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Web + Graphic Design –> Internet Startups
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Educational Technology. Remember CD-ROMs?
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Graduate Summa Cum Laude. Shoot for Stars.
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Design at Six Red Marbles –> Design at Upromise
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Move to San Francisco
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Design at Classroom Connect
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Volunteer Teach for Studio 5 –> Artist-in-Residence at SF Schools
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Media Education at Just Think
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Really Want to Make Movies –> Classes at Film Arts and Video Certification at BAVC
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Direct Short Documentaries –> Lots of Freelance Video Production
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Produce Street Level TV with Team of Independent Journalists
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Produce and Direct Jericho’s Echo: Punk Rock in the Holy Land –> Tour Around World With Film
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Produce for Frontline/World
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Board of Directors of Bay Area Women in Film & TV and Documentary Features Programming Panelist for San Francisco International Film Festival
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Write Columns and Give Lectures about Media Stuff
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Run TILT (Teaching Intermedia Literacy Tools) and direct youth programming for Ninth Street Independent Film Center
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Move to New York –> Supervising Producer at MTV News, running Choose or Lose Street Team '08 election coverage
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Coordinating Producer on National Christmas Tree Lighting in DC with the Obamas and performances by Sheryl Crow, Jordin Sparks, and more.
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Shoot doc in Haiti for Wyclef Jean's charitable org, Yele Haiti
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And now...Two feature docs and a TV show in development! Stay tuned for details and, in the meantime, check out my current projects and work samples.

A big part of Liz's story has been formed by the thousands of bands that she has seen live, housed, fed, or hung out with over the years. Here is a small sample:

108
7 Seconds
88 Fingers Louie
A.F.I.
Alkaline Trio
All
American Nightmare
Andrew WK
As Friends Rust
Assuck
At the Drive-in
Atom and His Package
Avail
Bad Religion
Bane
Battery
Beastie Boys
Beck
Big D & The Kids Table
Bigwig
Blink 182
Bloodlet
Botch
Bouncing Souls
Boy Sets Fire
Breaker Breaker
Burning Airlines
Coalesce
Converge
Copper
Counterfit
Damnation A.D.
Darkest Hour
The Decemberists
The Descendents
Despair
Diecast
Dillinger 4
Donnas
Discount
Dropkick Murphys
Earth Crisis
Elliot
Evens
The Fairlanes
Fastbreak
Fenix TX
Fishbone
Fugazi
The Gamits
Go-Go's
Good Clean Fun
Good Riddance
Green Day
H20
Hatebreed
The Hope Conspiracy
Hot Water Music
Ignite
Indecision
Jets to Brazil
Jewdriver
Jimmy Eat World
Kid Dynamite
Lagwagon
Lawrence Arms
Less Than Jake
Lifetime
Lunachicks
Madball
Midtown
Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Mike Watt
Murphy's Law
MxPx
NOFX
No Use For a Name
One King Down
One Way Letter
Orange 9mm
Overcast
Over It
Pansy Division
Path of Resistance
Piebald
The Promise RIng
The Queers
Ramones
Rancid
Samiam
Saves the Day
Sensefield
Shelter
Sick of it All
Slayer
Small Brown Bike
Sonic Youth
Sublime
Taking Back Sunday
Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
Ten Yard Fight
They Might Be Giants
Thrice
Thursday
U.S. Bombs
Used
Useless I.D.
V.O.D.
Voodoo Glow Skulls
Weston
What Happens Next