BIOGRAPHIE

Liz Cairns is an award-winning writer and director from Vancouver, BC and a graduate of the Director's Lab at the Canadian Film Centre. Her short films have played at festivals internationally, including TIFF, Austin Film Festival, Interfilm Berlin, Female Eye Film Festival and VIFF, among others. Programmer Curtis Woloschuk commented on Liz's ability to "elicit remarkable performances." In 2017, she was invited to the Berlinale Short Film Station at the Berlinale, one of ten participants selected out of thousands of applicants, to develop her short film The Horses (then titled Animals Don't Commit Suicide). Liz is also an in-demand production designer, working on a wide range of projects. She was the production designer on Never Steady, Never Still (TIFF 2017) and The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (Berlinale 2019). She has been nominated for a Canadian Screen Award and won a Leo Award in 2019.

FILMOGRAPHIE

• 2021 The Horses Director, Referent, Sales, Script, Script
• 2019 Hand Job Decors, Decors
• 2017 His Name is Willy Director, Production, Referent