Biography for Elizabeth Canner

Elizabeth Canner is an award-winning media artist and independent filmmaker who has produced and directed six documentaries (such as State of Emergency: Inside the Los Angeles Police Department) and created multiple video art pieces and installations. She has been the recipient of 18 grants for her work, from foundations such as the Rockefeller Foundation, the LEF foundation and The Paul Robeson Fund for Independent Media. Her work has been broadcast on television nationally in the United States on PBS stations, Deep Dish TV, Free Speech TV, Worldlink TV and internationally in England, Haiti, Canada, Nicaragua, New Zealand, and Germany. It has been screened at museums, galleries and film festivals such as The New York Film Festival and The Human Rights Watch Film Festival. She has served on the Board of Directors of The Boston Film and Video Foundation and VisionSpace.