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About Liz Canner
- Liz Canner is an American filmmaker who makes documentaries, digital public art installations and new media projects on human rights issues.
- She often employs cutting edge technologies to explore social issues from a new perspective.
- A prime example of this is her critically acclaimed public cyber art documentary Symphony of a City.
- Her documentary Deadly Embrace: Nicaragua, The World Bank and the IMF (1995), was one of the first films to look critically at the effects of the International Monetary Fund, World Bank policy and globalization.
- In 2009 Canner directed Orgasm Inc.: The Strange Science of Female Pleasure (2009), a feature-length investigative documentary on the pharmaceutical industry and women's health. Canner is the founder and director of Astrea Media, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating media projects on human rights issues. Canner graduated with honors in anthropology and visual arts from Brown University in 1991.
- She has been the recipient of over 50 awards, honors and grants for her work including a Rockefeller Foundation Next Generation Leadership Fellowship for "creating innovative media projects that strengthen democracy", a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, a Radcliffe Institute (Bunting) Film/Video Fellowship from Harvard University and the Visionary Award from Dartmouth College. A native of Massachusetts, Canner lives in Vermont, with her husband, Dr.
- Alex Barnett.
- She previously lived with writer Pagan Kennedy in a set-up they have described as similar to a Boston marriage.
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