"Back to selectionLiz Garbus broke into documentary features with The Farm: Angola, USA, an unnerving portrait of the notorious Louisiana prison. Made when Garbus was 24, it looks eerily prescient today. Garbus has since directed a string of influential works covering the spectrum of the documentary genre. Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer used the Gilgo Beach serial killings to uncover police corruption in Suffolk Country."
"Gone Girls: The Long Island Serial Killer used the Gilgo Beach serial killings to uncover police corruption in Suffolk Country. What Happened, Miss Simone?, a wide-ranging look at Nina Simone, won Emmy and Peabody awards. All In: The Fight for Democracy tackled voter suppression. She's explored shorts, features and series for every available platform, from theatrical to PBS, HBO, Netflix, Amazon Prime and Showtime."
"I was 24 years old at the time and didn't have a family to support or a company to run. We had, I think, $100,000 from Channel 4 in the UK and maybe $150,000 from A&E. We worked on it for three and a half years. It was shot on a variety of formats, depending"
"I heard a cinematographer here say he feels 90% of his films are failures and he can't sit through any of them. I don't feel quite that bleak, but I certainly subscribe to the notion that films are never finished, only abandoned.Watching The Farm, I appreciated its patience, and pacing, but I chafe at the narration. I was such a baby when I made that film."
Liz Garbus broke into documentary features with The Farm: Angola, USA, an unnerving portrait of the notorious Louisiana prison. The Farm was made when Garbus was 24 and required years of intermittent shooting with limited daily filming time. Garbus has directed influential documentaries across subjects including the Gilgo Beach investigations in Gone Girls, the Nina Simone biography What Happened, Miss Simone?, and the voter-suppression film All In: The Fight for Democracy. Garbus has worked for theatrical release and platforms such as PBS, HBO, Netflix, Amazon Prime and Showtime, and has directed narrative television episodes and produced other documentaries. EnergaCAMERIMAGE awarded Garbus for outstanding achievements, screening multiple works.
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