Elizabeth Wood (director)
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- Film director
- screenwriter
Elizabeth Wood | |
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 Wood in 2011 | |
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| Years active | 2007–present |
| Spouse |
Gabriel Nussbaum (m. 2009) |
Elizabeth Wood is an American film director and screenwriter, best known for her feature film debut White Girl.
In 2007, Wood made her feature film debut with the documentary film Wade in the Water Children, revolving around a violent neighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana.[1][2]
Wood made her narrative feature film debut with White Girl which premiere at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2016.[3][4] FilmRise and Netflix later acquired distribution rights to the film.[5][6] It was released on September 2, 2016.[7] The film is loosely based on Wood's life.[8] In 2025 she and her husband, Gabriel Nussbaum, were working on a film titled Triumph of the Will set in Nazi Germany being filmed in Albany, New York and Troy, New York.[9][10]