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- LISA RUSSELL
- Lisa Russell is an Emmy® Award-winning documentary filmmaker whose background in humanitarian relief and development work gives her inspiration for films about our global society. She has traveled extensively, shooting films for UN and international agencies in diverse countries such as Brazil, Colombia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Liberia, Malawi, Niger, South Africa and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In September of 2005, Lisa collaborated with Grammy-nominated artist, Zap Mama, on The Woman Tour - a three-week nationwide tour of film screenings and musical performances to increase awareness of global women's health. Lisa was chosen as one of 25 filmmakers for the National Black Programming Consortium's New Media Institute, is a two-time producer for WGBH's Lab Open Call and is a 2008 receipient of a New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) grant. Residing in Brooklyn, NY, she is currently a teaching artist with Urban Word NYC, where she leads a workshop blending film screenings and open mics for young spoken word artists to initiate awareness and dialogue about social issues affecting today’s youth.