Her films "The Chocolate Fetish" "The Joy Café" "Waiting for Jilly" and "Rutherford County" have screened in venues such as RiverRun International Film Festival, Blue Ridge Southeast Film Festival, Action On Film Festival, Atlanta Underground Film Festival, Fiery Film Festival and Cannes Short Film Market receiving tremendous praise. Her films have taken home awards at the Tupelo Film Festival, Key West IndieFest and Telluride IndieFest. She has worked on film sets across the United States.
She has participated in numerous theatrical productions, Spoken Word events and photography exhibits. Her photography has been published in Asheville Through the Seasons, a coffee table book by Twin Lights Publishers and published in PHOTOgraphic magazine. She has been published in the January, February and March 2006 editions of Long Story Short magazine & Blotter Magazine 2006.
Lis Anna is the recipient of many awards including; a four time WorldFest Intl Screenplay winner, WorldFest Charleston Silver Medal Winner, FadeIn:, Telluride IndieFest Best Short Film Winner, Key West IndieFest, the Helene Wurlitzer Artist in Residence Award, Chesterfield Film Project Finalist, New Century Writers and a finalist in the prestigious William Faulkner Fiction Competition. Two films written-directed-produced by Lis Anna are screening at the Short Film Market - Cannes 2005 - 2006. Her screenplay "Bankers" is an International Screenwriting Awards - 2005 Quarter-Finalist, a Semi-Finalist in the Nicholl Fellowships, a semi finalist in the American Zoetrope Screenwriting Contest and proud to be the First Place Winner of the American Accolades Screenplay Competiton 2005. Her latest film is currently in production to be shot on location. Lis Anna is the Second Place Winner of the Thomas Wolfe Fiction Award 2006 and the Second Place Winner Best Dramatic Short at the Tupelo Film Festival 2006. She is currently the Artist in Residence at the Herbert Hoover Historical Presidential Site 2006.
Lis Anna is a prolific, energetic artist who understands that art emerges through a blend of contemplative form and structured action. Having lived throughout the United States she draws on a base of experience, fact, imagery, and intuition to create new projects.
She writes rain, sleet, snow and shine and when she sleeps she dreams of Babylon.
Participated in acting workshops taught by Elizabeth D'Onofrio.
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