Lisa Marie Russo

Lisa Marie is a filmmaker and producer, and has led three UK Funds. She works in docs, fiction and animation, and her films have shown globally at A-list festivals, in cinemas, and on TV and streamers. She led the BFI Doc Society Fund from 2018 - '21, then acted as consultant on select titles. Awards for films, which she has executive produced include: Is There Anybody Out There?, 2023 (Sundance World Cinema Doc Competition), Nothing Compares, 2022 (Sundance, two BIFAs, PGA nomination, Showtime), A Bunch of Amateurs, 2022 (Sheffield Doc Fest Audience Award, BBC Storyville), Rebellion, 2021 (BAFTA debut nomination, Netflix), Poly Styrene: I am a Cliche, 2021 (two BIFAs), Locked In, 2020 (BAFTA, Grierson Award, BBC Storyville) and the shorts The Nightrcrawlers, 2019 (Emmy, Nat Geo) and The Black Cop, 2021 (BAFTA Short Film, Guardian Documentaries). She has EP'ed over twenty animation shorts, and was BAFTA nominated for The Tale of the Rat that Wrote in 1998, which she produced.

In 2009, Lisa Marie and Kate Ogborn launched Fly Film. Her producer feature credits include Ken Loach's The Spirit of '45, 2013 (Berlin FF and C4), Andrew Kotting's Swandown, 2012 (Cannes Acid) and Gillian Wearing's Self Made, 2010 (LFF, MOMA). She was EP on Hockney, 2014 (BBC Arts) and on Terence Davies' The Deep Blue Sea, 2011 starring Rachel Weisz and Tom Hiddleston (London, Toronto) and Of Time And The City, 2008 (Cannes Out of Competition). She started her career as a documentary director at PBS station WHYY in Philadelphia.

Lisa Marie is developing the adult animation feature Lollipop, inspired by her experience surviving breast cancer twice.