Lisa Biagiotti

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Lisa Biagiotti
Born (1979-08-20) August 20, 1979 (age 44)
Residence Los Angeles
Nationality American
Ethnicity Hakka Chinese Jamaican, Italian-American
Education Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Fulbright Award
Occupation Filmmaker
Journalist
Transmedia Storyteller
Years active 2007–present
Notable credit(s) deepsouth, Sundance New Frontier Fellow
Website www.lisabiagiotti.com

Lisa Biagiotti (born August 20, 1979) is a filmmaker, journalist and transmedia storyteller based in Los Angeles. She is the director and producer of deepsouth, a feature documentary about poverty, HIV/AIDS and LGBT issues in the rural American South.[1] Biagiotti is a Fulbright Fellow and a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.[2][3] She is of Hakka Chinese Jamaican descent.[4][5]

Career

Biagiotti is an inaugural Fellow in the Sundance New Frontier Artist Residency program in partnership with The Social Computing Group at MIT Media Lab.[6] She speaks publicly about digital journalism, and independently producing and self-distributing films.[7][8]

For her independent documentary deepsouth, Biagiotti spent two-and-a-half years reporting, driving 13,000 miles and interviewing more than 400 people.[9][10] Upon completion, she was invited across rural America on a 150-stop grassroots film tour. deepsouth is referenced in almost every discussion about HIV/AIDS crisis in the American South, and Biagiotti has been invited to The White House and Clinton Global Initiative to discuss the domestic epidemic.[11] Biagiotti’s work has been featured in The New Yorker,[12] The Atlantic,[13] Los Angeles Times,[14] PBS,[15] NPR,[16] Oxford American,[17] and The Lancet.[18] She writes about her 5-year journey of making the film in her Director’s Statement titled Same Virus, Different Disease.[19]

Biagiotti is the producer of The World’s Toilet Crisis, an hour-long documentary that aired on the Vanguard series of Current TV in 2010.[20] She produced short video series for the nightly newscast Worldfocus on WNET on under-reported topics covering homophobia in the Caribbean and the humanitarian crisis in eastern Congo—the latter was awarded a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for International Television.[21]

Awards

Year Award Organization Work Award Category Result
2001 Fulbright Award United States Department of State Research: Muslim immigration into Italy Study/ Research Grant Won[22]
2009 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights Crisis in Congo series International Television Category Won[23]
National News Emmy Award National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences War in Congo series Best Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast Nominated[24]
2012 SHOUT! LGBT Best Documentary Sidewalk Film Festival deepsouth Best Documentary Won[25]
Koronis Fest Special Filmmaker Award Sidewalk Film Festival deepsouth Public Health Won[26]
Best Documentary and
Audience Favorite		 Outflix Film Festival deepsouth Awards for Best Documentary and Audience Favorite Won[27]
2013
Award for Freedom Outfest Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival deepsouth Special Programming Award Won[28]
Official Selection HRW Traveling Film Festival Human Rights Watch Film Festival deepsouth Traveling Film Festival Won[29]
Award for Best Documentary Feature Polari Film Festival deepsouth Best Documentary Feature Won
Award for Best Feature Length Documentary Pensacola LGBT Film Festival / ACLU of Florida deepsouth Best Feature Length Documentary Won[30]
2014 Most Captivating Voices of 2014 HIV Equal Online Magazine deepsouth Top 10 List Won[31]
Livingston Award Livingston Awards for Young Journalists deepsouth National Reporting Nominated[32]

References

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