Lisa Biagiotti
{{Short description|American journalist}}
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| education = Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Fulbright Award
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| nationality = American
| occupation = Filmmaker
Journalist
Storyteller
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| years_active = 2007–present
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| credits = Sundance Artist, deepsouth, Los Angeles Times
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| URL = {{url|www.lisabiagiotti.com}}
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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.{{cite web|url=http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-biagiotti-onthestreets-20151118-htmlstory.html|title=On the Streets |work=Los Angeles Times|date=5 March 2016|accessdate=2016-06-01}} She directed and produced deepsouth, an independent documentary about poverty, HIV/AIDS and LGBT issues in the rural American South.{{cite web|url=http://deepsouthfilm.com|title='deepsouth' official website|publisher=deepsouthfilm.com|date=|accessdate=2015-05-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518073718/http://www.deepsouthfilm.com/|archive-date=2015-05-18|url-status=dead}} Biagiotti is a Fulbright Scholar and a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.{{cite web|last=Sinclair|first=Kamal|url=http://www.sundance.org/blogs/program-spotlight/New-Frontier-Artist-Residency-Program-Launches-at-with-Support-from-The-Rockefeller-Foundation|title=New Frontier Artist Residency Program Launches|publisher=sundance.org|date=2014-06-30|accessdate=2015-05-07}}{{cite web|url=http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/news/710|title=Prof. Duy Linh Tu and Lisa Biagiotti '08 collaborate on 'deepsouth'|publisher=journalism.columbia.edu|date=2012-07-20|accessdate=2015-05-07|archive-url=http://webarchive.loc.gov/all/20120805011809/http://www.journalism.columbia.edu/news/710|archive-date=2012-08-05|url-status=dead}} She is of Italian descent from her father and Hakka Chinese Jamaican descent from her mother.{{cite web|last=Kafka|first=Alexander C.|url=http://oxa.cjrwbeta.com/articles/2012/jul/24/filmmaker-interview-lisa-biagiotti|title=FILMMAKER INTERVIEW: Lisa Biagiotti|publisher=oxa.cjrwbeta.com|date=2012-07-24|accessdate=2015-05-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518080931/http://oxa.cjrwbeta.com/articles/2012/jul/24/filmmaker-interview-lisa-biagiotti/|archive-date=2015-05-18|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|last=Biagiotti|first=Lisa|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wires/2009/05/12/generations-meet-in-jamai_6_ws_202126.html|title=Generations meet in Jamaica's Chinese cemetery|publisher=huffingtonpost.com|date=2009-05-12|accessdate=2015-05-07}}
Career
Biagiotti is an inaugural Fellow in the Sundance New Frontier Artist Residency program in partnership with The Social Computing Group at MIT Media Lab.{{cite web|last=Sinclair|first=Kamal|url=http://www.sundance.org/blogs/program-spotlight/New-Frontier-Artist-Residency-Program-Launches-at-with-Support-from-The-Rockefeller-Foundation|title=New Frontier Artist Residency Program Launches|publisher=sundance.org|date=2014-06-30|accessdate=2015-05-07}} She speaks publicly about digital journalism, and independently producing and self-distributing films.{{cite web|last=Macaulay|first=Scott|url=http://filmmakermagazine.com/87617-forty-three-takeaways-from-sundance-artist-services-day-at-the-ifp-filmmaker-conference/#.VUk-5mRVhBc|title=43 Takeaways from Sundance Artist Services Day at the IFP Filmmaker Conference|publisher=filmmakermagazine.com|date=2014-09-22|accessdate=2015-05-07}}{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=230BDmu6CuM|title=Masterclass: Filming Outside Your Turf at DOC NYC 2013|publisher=docnyc.net|date=2013-12-11|accessdate=2015-05-07}}
For her independent documentary deepsouth, Biagiotti spent two-and-a-half years reporting, driving 13,000 miles and interviewing more than 400 people.{{Cite magazine|last=Stillman|first=Sarah|url=http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/h-i-v-s-grip-on-the-american-south?mobify=0|title=H.I.V.'s Grip on the American South|magazine=The New Yorker|date=2014-04-07|accessdate=2015-05-07}}{{cite web|last=Vawda |first=Hassan |url=http://www.polarimagazine.com/interviews/deepsouth-interview-lisa-biagiotti|title='deepsouth' An Interview with Lisa Biagiotti|publisher=Polarimagazine.com |date=2013-04-29 |accessdate=2015-05-07}} 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.{{cite web|last=Spiro|first=Stephanie|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/stephanie-spiro/deepsouth-an-interview-wi_b_6247510.html|title='deepsouth': An Interview With Filmmaker Lisa Biagiotti|publisher=huffingtonpost.com|date=2014-12-01|accessdate=2015-05-07}} Biagiotti's work has been featured in The New Yorker,{{Cite magazine|last=Stillman|first=Sarah|url=http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/h-i-v-s-grip-on-the-american-south?mobify=0|title=H.I.V.'s Grip on the American South|magazine=The New Yorker|date=2014-04-07|accessdate=2015-05-07}} The Atlantic,{{cite web|last=Hamblin|first=James|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/06/staying-alive-in-the-rural-south/276980|title=Staying Alive in the Rural South|publisher=theatlantic.com|date=2013-06-19|accessdate=2015-05-07}} Los Angeles Times,{{Cite news|last=Biagiotti|first=Lisa|url=https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-biagiotti-aids-in-the-south-20120726-story.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120728115552/http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jul/26/opinion/la-oe-biagiotti-aids-in-the-south-20120726|url-status=live|archive-date=July 28, 2012|title=AIDS--The South's Shame|date=2012-07-26|access-date=2015-05-07|newspaper=Los Angeles Times}} PBS,{{cite web|last=Biagiotti |first=Lisa|url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/opinion/aids-and-bible-belt/5465|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120116020717/http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/opinion/aids-and-bible-belt/5465/|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 16, 2012|title=AIDS in the Bible Belt|publisher=pbs.org|date=2010-12-01|accessdate=2015-05-07}} NPR,{{cite web|url=http://www.scpr.org/programs/take-two/2014/12/23/40867/deepsouth-documentary-explores-challenges-of-fight|title='deepsouth' documentary explores challenges of fighting AIDS|publisher=scpr.org|date=2014-12-23|accessdate=2015-05-07}} Oxford American,{{cite web|last=Kafka|first=Alexander C.|url=http://oxa.cjrwbeta.com/articles/2012/jul/24/filmmaker-interview-lisa-biagiotti|title=FILMMAKER INTERVIEW: Lisa Biagiotti|publisher=oxa.cjrwbeta.com|date=2012-07-24|accessdate=2015-05-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518080931/http://oxa.cjrwbeta.com/articles/2012/jul/24/filmmaker-interview-lisa-biagiotti/|archive-date=2015-05-18|url-status=dead}} and The Lancet.{{cite journal |doi=10.1016/S1473-3099(13)70353-0 |title=Strengthening the voices of the unheard |journal=The Lancet Infectious Diseases |volume=13 |issue=12 |pages=1019 |year=2013 |last1=Heald |first1=Rebecca }} She writes about her 5-year journey of making the film in her Director’s Statement titled Same Virus, Different Disease.{{cite web|last=Biagiotti|first=Lisa|url=http://www.deepsouthfilm.com/#!director/c1cuj|title=Same Virus, Different Disease: HIV in the American South|publisher=deepsouthfilm.com|date=2014-12-01|accessdate=2015-05-07|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518073718/http://www.deepsouthfilm.com/#!director/c1cuj|archivedate=2015-05-18}}
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.{{cite web|last=Sawyer |first=Peter|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wires/2010/06/17/the-worlds-toilet-crisis_ws_615855.html|title=The World's Toilet Crisis|publisher=huffingtonpost.com|date=2010-08-17|accessdate=2015-05-07}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://rfkcenter.org/rfk-center-announces-winners-of-2009-robert-f-kennedy-journalism-awards|title=RFK Center Announces Winners of 2009 Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards|publisher=rfkcenter.org|date=2009|accessdate=2015-05-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518121035/http://rfkcenter.org/rfk-center-announces-winners-of-2009-robert-f-kennedy-journalism-awards|archive-date=2015-05-18|url-status=dead}}
Awards
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| 2001
|United States Department of State |Research: Muslim immigration into Italy |Study/ Research Grant |style="background:#dfd;"|Won{{cite web|url=http://www.scranton.edu/academics/fulbright/award-recipients.shtml|title=Fulbright and Other International Fellowship Award Recipients|publisher=scranton.edu|date= |accessdate=2015-05-07}} |
| rowspan="2"|2009
|Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award |Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights |Crisis in Congo series |International Television Category |
| National News Emmy Award
|National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences |War in Congo series |Best Story in a Regularly Scheduled Newscast | style="background:#fdd;"|Nominated{{cite web|url=http://emmyonline.com/news_30th_nominations|title=Nominees for the 30th Annual News & Documentary EMMY® Awards Announced by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences|publisher=emmyonline.com |date= |accessdate=2015-05-07}} |
| rowspan="3"|2012
|SHOUT! LGBT Best Documentary |Sidewalk Film Festival |deepsouth |Best Documentary |
| Koronis Fest Special Filmmaker Award
|Sidewalk Film Festival |deepsouth |Public Health |
| Best Documentary and Audience Favorite |Outflix Film Festival |deepsouth |Awards for Best Documentary and Audience Favorite |
| rowspan="5"|2013 |
| Award for Freedom
|Outfest Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival |deepsouth |Special Programming Award |
| Official Selection HRW Traveling Film Festival
|Human Rights Watch Film Festival |deepsouth |Traveling Film Festival | style="background:#dfd;"|Won{{cite web|author= |url=http://ff.hrw.org/content/deepsouth |title=deepsouth | Human Rights Watch Film Festival |publisher=Ff.hrw.org |date= |accessdate=2015-05-07}} |
| Award for Best Documentary Feature
|Polari Film Festival |deepsouth |Best Documentary Feature | style="background:#dfd;"|Won |
| Award for Best Feature Length Documentary
|Pensacola LGBT Film Festival / ACLU of Florida |deepsouth |Best Feature Length Documentary |
| rowspan="3"|2014
|Most Captivating Voices of 2014 |HIV Equal Online Magazine |deepsouth |Top 10 List |
| Livingston Award
|Livingston Awards for Young Journalists |deepsouth |National Reporting | style="background:#fdd;"|Nominated{{cite web|url=http://ns.umich.edu/new/releases/22164-livingston-awards-finalists-move-to-final-round-of-judging |title=Livingston Awards finalists move to final round of judging | University of Michigan News |publisher=Ns.umich.edu |date=2014-05-01 |accessdate=2015-05-07}} |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb title|2421914|deepsouth}}
- {{IMDb name|nm3081603|lisabiagiotti}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20150518073718/http://www.deepsouthfilm.com/ deepsouth official website]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20141117055959/http://lisabiagiotti.com/ Lisa Biagiotti website]
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Category:American women screenwriters
Category:Film producers from Los Angeles
Category:American women television directors
Category:American television directors
Category:Journalists from Los Angeles
Category:American people of Hakka descent
Category:American women television journalists
Category:American writers of Italian descent
Category:American writers of Chinese descent
Category:Jamaican people of Chinese descent
Category:Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism alumni
Category:American documentary filmmakers
Category:Film directors from Los Angeles
Category:Screenwriters from California
Category:American women documentary filmmakers
Category:American women writers of Chinese descent