Lisa Molomot

American Documentary Producer, Director and Editor
lmolomot@email.arizona.edu

Lisa Molomot is an award-winning filmmaker who produces and directs social justice documentaries. Many of her recent works, Missing in Brooks County (Peabody Award winner, LA Critics Choice nominee and Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award finalist), The Cleaners, Safe Haven and Soledad, have focused on immigration and immigrant communities. She has also produced films about public education. Her hugely popular film School's Out has been an integral part of the worldwide movement to provide outdoor education for young children, and her recent short film Teaching in Arizona is an inside look at the teaching crisis in that state. She is currently working on a documentary about an archaeology project in Tucson, where she has been living for the past 9 years.