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Believers A documentary essay looking at the nature of faith in the contemporary United States. The work explores the social, psychological or political functions deep faith serves through portraits of sincere believers, and reveals the challenges, seductions, and contradictions of contemporary belief. Selected Works Film The Beauty Academy of Kabul (2004)
On Hostile Ground (2001, co-director) Accomplishments Liz Mermins recent documentary The Beauty Academy of Kabul was released theatrically in 2006, and broadcast on BBC2 and across Europe. A graduate of both Harvard and New York University, she has been a Fulbright Scholar and a Whitney Museum Independent Study Program Fellow. She has made documentaries for television, including PBS, ABC, Discovery, Court TV, and the Oxygen network.
Education 1997 MA Anthropology, 1998 Certificate in Culture and Media, New York University
1993 BA Literature (summa cum laude), Harvard University Web Site News April, May, June 2008 Liz Mermin’s
Shot in Bombay
was shown in Hot
Docs.
This feature documentary tells three intertwined stories: the rise of
the city's underworld in the 1990s, narrated by a no-nonsense ex-police
chief known as "Bombay's Dirty Harry"; the tribulations of superstar
Sanjay Dutt, on trial for alleged involvement in India's largest
terrorist attack; and a young director's dogged quest to master the
delicate art of making a Bollywood blockbuster. January, February, March 2008
Liz Mermin’s Shot in Bombay was
shown in the SXSW
Film
Festival. This feature documentary follows a
Bollywood actor as
he makes his last film before being sentenced for a crime connected to
a major bombing attack. January, February, March 2007 Liz Mermin’s feature documentary Office Tigers,
about an office
full of young Indian professionals and the American executives teaching
them the rules of corporate culture, screened at the IFC Center in New
York, in March, as part of their “Stranger than
Fiction”
series. It was also shown at the Mexico City International
Contemporary Film Festival (FICCO) in February. |
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