Liz Mermin

Liz Mermin is a director from New York permanently settled in London, with twenty years of directing/producing/editing experience in the US and UK. She has directed seven feature docs, five for BBC's Storyville strand, and many hours and series. Her work is character-driven with a surprising sense of humour. She has directed many genres (drama-doc, current affairs, history, science, arts/culture, politics, sport) in a variety of styles, filming around the world, for Netflix, BBC, CNN, Discovery, PBS, Arte, and many other channels in the US and internationally.  Subjects range from Michelle Obama to Irish racehorses, Afghan hairdressers to Bollywood gangster stars, world-class physicists to world-champion debaters.

She spent three years as Executive Producer / Director of Visual at the Thomson Reuters Foundation, overseeing a small team and making short documentaries telling under-reported humanitarian stories. Mermin is also a writer, and has published articles about topics ranging from the American terrorist behind the 2008 Mumbai attacks to critical essays on films and filmmakers. A background in comparative literature and anthropology and a year spent observing filmmakers in Dakar inform her work.