Liz Smith

Roles: Director

Liz Smith is a producer, writer, and impact strategist with a focus on using media to create systemic change. She co-produced the feature documentary YOUTH v GOV, which is also screening at DCEFF. She produces and writes for the South Florida PBS series CHANGING SEAS, recently winning a Regional Emmy Award for her episode on the Deepwater Horizon disaster, and she is executive producing and writing a new digital educational series set to launch later this year. As a media producer, she’s spent more than a cumulative year at sea aboard research vessels in the Pacific, Caribbean, Mediterranean, and Gulf of Mexico; and has explored 2,000-year-old shipwrecks, searched for Amelia Earhart, and worked with Dr. Robert Ballard to bring live feeds from the deep sea directly into the classroom. She’s been a Fulbright Specialist and holds an MFA in Science and Natural History Filmmaking.