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Liza Politi is a producer, actor, teacher and photographer. Her first full-length documentary feature, By The People, won a HUGO Award, was broadcast nationwide on PBS and was ranked as one of the top films at the Jackson Hole Film Festival.
She has also produced a multimedia action-oriented human rights festival for the world-renowned, Culture Project, entitled Impact On The Gulf. The festival debuted in New York City. Liza has worked with Kids with Cameras; a non-profit organization based on the 2004 Academy Award-winning documentary, Born into Brothels, and is the Co-Founder/Creative Director of Statement Arts, a not for profit that believes in the power of art to inspire social and cultural change. Statement Arts’, The Bayou Tour 2005, traveled down to the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast with a busload of Broadway singers and performers to carol in the most neglected and forgotten areas, bringing music, a little Christmas spirit, toys and supplies to those desperately in need. It was featured on MSNBC.
She is a currently a partner at Fancy Girl Street Boy Productions and for the past five years has been producing international photography expeditions with some of the world’s leading shooters including National Geographic’s, Joe McNally and Magnum’s, David Alan Harvey.
Liza graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, winning the Lee Strasberg Award for acting in her final year, and spent 15 years working as an actress and model in New York City. She has performed Off- Broadway, in independent films and has been a spokesperson for Sensodyne, Volvo, Gerber’s, Olive Garden and has appeared in Martha Stewart Living, O! the Oprah Magazine, Better Homes & Gardens and Good Housekeeping.
In 2000, Liza was presented with the Joseph P. Reilly Award from the Screen Actors Guild in recognition for her efforts in resolving a national strike. After September 11, 2001, Liza spent nine months working with both the Red Cross and the Salvation Army. In 2003, the FDNY honored her for a community outreach program that she co-founded for them in 2001.
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