Photography: Raul Touzon

Liza Politi is a producer, actor, teacher and photographer. Her first full-length documentary feature, BY THE PEOPLE was broadcast nationwide on PBS and was ranked as one of the top films at the Jackson Hole Film Festival. She is currently producing IMPACT on the GULF, an action-oriented human rights festival that the Culture Project will debut in New York City (Fall 2006). Liza has worked with Kids with Cameras; a non-profit organization based on the 2004 Academy Award-winning documentary, Born into Brothels, and is the Co-Founder/Creative Director of Statement Arts, a not for profit that believes in the power of art to inspire social and cultural change. She graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, winning the Lee Strasberg Award for acting in her final year, and spent 15 years working as an actress and model in New York City. Liza has performed Off Broadway, in independent films and has been a spokesperson for Sensodyne, Volvo, Gerber’s, Olive Garden, and has appeared in Martha Stewart Living, O! the Oprah Magazine, Better Homes & Gardens, and Good Housekeeping.

Her work as both a producer and an actor gives her photography a unique perspective and her photos been exhibited and published in many venues.

www.lizapoliti.com