about me
Lizz Marshall is an award winning writer/director who received her B.A. in Film and Television Production at the University of Southern California. She prefers writing from the perspective of characters that are peculiar or under-represented. She is drawn to the thriller, sci-fi, and horror genres. Lizz believes these genres provide a creative vehicle for examining difficult subjects and encourages us to question our own world.
Lizz writes music in her spare time and has directed narrative music videos for songs she has written or co-written.
achievements
Most recently, Lizz’s script Alma’s Grave was on the BloodList in 2022, a round up of the best unproduced genre screenplays of the year, presented by Village Roadshow and Brillstein Entertainment. In 2018, Lizz was awarded the inaugural Stephanie Rothman Fellowship for Women Filmmakers for her sci-fi/horror script What Daphne Saw; the fellowship was presented by Blumhouse’s Shock Waves podcast at Etheria Film Night.
What Daphne Saw won multiple awards and is currently available to watch on Gunpowder and Sky’s ALTER. Lizz received the runner-up spot in the 2020 Film Pipeline competition for her short film What Daphne Saw. What Daphne Saw won “Best Score in a Short” and “Best Actor in a Short” at Horrible Imaginings Film Festival and was nominated in four more categories. The team also took home the “Audience Award” at NFFTY and headlined anti-human trafficking group NotInOurCity’s fundraiser.
In the Press
BloodList Revealed: The Best Unproduced Horror Scripts of 2022 - Featured in Variety with “Alma’s Grave”
BloodList Puts Focus on Best Horror and Dark Genre Scripts of the Year - Featured in The Hollywood Reporter with “Alma’s Grave”
14th Annual BloodList Celebrates Best Unproduced Horror - Featured in Fangoria with “Alma’s Grave”
This Year’s Best Unproduced Horror Screenplays - Featured in Bloody Disgusting with “Alma’s Grave”
Ax Wound Film Festival: What Daphne Saw - Review of “What Daphne Saw” from Morbidly Beautiful
Emerging Women Directors Share Insights - Featured in Directed by Women with “What Daphne Saw”
Horror Filmmaker Headlines Anti-Human Trafficking Fundraiser - Featured in Halloween Every Night with “What Daphne Saw”
Katy Trafficking Group Partners with Filmmakers - Featured in The Midland Reporter-Telegram (Houston, Texas) with “What Daphne Saw”
Horrible Imaginings Film Festival (Short Film Recaps) - Review of “What Daphne Saw” by Silver Screen Analysis
Pitch Videos We Loved in 2018 - Featured on Seed&Spark with the crowd funding video for “What Daphne Saw”