Lisa Biagiotti
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Journalist
Storyteller
Lisa Biagiotti | |
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| Born | August 20, 1979 |
| Education | Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Fulbright Award |
| Occupations | Filmmaker Journalist Storyteller |
| Years active | 2007–present |
| Notable credit(s) | Sundance Artist, deepsouth, Los Angeles Times |
| Website | www |
Lisa Biagiotti (born August 20, 1979) is a filmmaker and journalist based in Los Angeles. She is the director and on-camera correspondent of On the Streets, a Los Angeles Times 12-part series and 72-minute feature documentary on homelessness in Southern California.[1] She directed and produced deepsouth, an independent documentary about poverty, HIV/AIDS and LGBT issues in the rural American South.[2] Biagiotti is a Fulbright Scholar and a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.[3][4] She is of Italian descent from her father and Hakka Chinese Jamaican descent from her mother.[5][6]
Biagiotti is an inaugural Fellow in the Sundance New Frontier Artist Residency program in partnership with The Social Computing Group at MIT Media Lab.[7] She speaks publicly about digital journalism, and independently producing and self-distributing films.[8][9]
For her independent documentary deepsouth, Biagiotti spent two-and-a-half years reporting, driving 13,000 miles and interviewing more than 400 people.[10][11] She was invited across rural America on a 150-stop grassroots film tour, and was invited to discuss the domestic epidemic at The White House and Clinton Global Initiative.[12] Biagiotti's work has been featured in The New Yorker,[13] The Atlantic,[14] Los Angeles Times,[15] PBS,[16] NPR,[17] Oxford American,[18] and The Lancet.[19] She writes about her 5-year journey of making the film in her Director’s Statement titled Same Virus, Different Disease.[20]
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.[21] 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.[22]