Director BIO: Liz Lachman (PIN-UP)

• EMMY AWARD
• GOLDEN REEL AWARD
• BMI TV MUSIC AWARD

• PIN-UP (short based on feature screenplay) starring Christina Chang (The Good Doctor, 24) and Angela Sarafyn (Westworld). Finished Nov. 2017

• GETTING TO KNOW YOU (short), featuring Dana Delaney, Ian Gomez, and Elizabeth Keener, won 9 film festival awards and screened in over 80 festivals world-wide (including the LA Film Festival).

• Feature Documentary (Post Production) – “Susan Feniger: FORKED,” follows her partner, celebrity Chef Susan Feniger around the globe, while she hunts down authentic recipes from street stands and brings them back to LA to create a brand new restaurant called Street.

• Created/shot/directed web series, “Streetnoise,” based on that same subject

• Marie Osmond SPOOFS 2 videos with Marie spoofing her “Dancing With the Stars” appearances – both appeared on Entertainment Tonight

• Web series/ music videos “Chef Tips with Susan Feniger “ (https://vimeo.com/62665864)

• Currently in development on screenplay with producer Allyn Stewart (SULLY)

• Created the Kingworld TV series DESTINY

• Wrote the feature film FINAL DAYS for Here!TV

• BOOK of Liz’s collected blogs from her travels around the world with Feniger, titled: “NO ESCAPE: My horrible food travels with chef Susan Feniger…a love story.” (It wasn’t pretty.)

Director Statement

The feature version of my film, Pin-Up, examines the origin of obsession, whether over love, art, even life. This piece goes deep into mother/child bonding, or lack thereof and the effects it can have later in life. The need for beauty, art, creativity is in so many of us and Lana’s journey is one I have experienced myself. And I believe this is a universal feeling. The film will rely on special effects, visual and sound, to create a world that looks, sounds, tastes so beautiful that the audience will prefer to live in it over their own life, just as Lana does.

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By femalefilmfestival

The irony of this festival is that its goal is to not be around in 5 years time. To eventually not be relevant because there is zero need to have a festival geared for female talent and female stories because the stories presented in Hollywood and around the world are a balanced showcase of the human experience from both sexes. Our goal is to achieve a lot of success and then fold into oblivion simply because there is no need for this festival. This festival was created by the FEEDBACK Film & Writing Festival as a simple reaction to a strong need to showcase female talent from around the world in a more profound way. When putting together the weekly festival, the administration noticed a lack of a female presence in the stories being shown at the festival. A classic example and analogy to the frustration is how the festival noticed that even the smaller roles in a screenplay were written for a man to play. There was zero reason for this in many stories. How a police officer, or a political campaign manager, for example with 3-4 lines in a screenplay was a "HE" character. Why? And these are the screenplays written by the winners! The talented one who have obtained agents and have began/beginning their careers as a writer.

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