Biography
Lizzie Oxby is an award-winning filmmaker who graduated from the RCA in London. She specialises in making inventive films which blend animation with live-action – and has a love of creating heightened worlds – which often cross over from the dark to the beautiful, in imaginative ways. She’s won 14 awards and 5 nominations including a British Animation Award, a British Independent Film Award (BIFA) nomination, and Gold and Silver Mikeldi Awards at Zinebi (FIAPF). Her films have screened at numerous prominent film festivals, including the BFI London Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, Rotterdam, Bilbao and Krakow. And have been exhibited at major modern art and cultural institutes worldwide and in the UK including The National Gallery, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Arnolfini and The Royal Academy of Art in London. Lizzie’s films have featured on eminent sites including; Sundance.TV, The Atlantic, IndieWire, Creative Review, The Huffington Post, WIRED – Bruce Sterling’s Beyond the Beyond, Gizmodo, Cartoon Brew, AWN, Televisual, Vimeo Staff Picks, Boing Boing tv, Digital Arts, The Village Voice, Short of the Week and Promo News. Her work has aired on Arte France/Germany, Canal+ Poland, Universal Italy, Canal+ Spain, CBC Canada, Channel 4 Television and MTV International Networks and flown with Virgin American Airlines. She’s currently developing her feature film, Tiny Dots which received the support of NFM in partnership with WFTV and Creative Skillset funded by the BFI, won a 2017 John Brabourne Award in support of the project and was shortlisted for the 2018 Sundance Screenwriters Lab. Other projects include creating a fictional otherworldly photo-storybook Something-in-Between – and a cinematic photography project commissioned by the international theatre company, Punchdrunk..She’s also directed and devised films for the stage which have played at The Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith and London’s ICA before touring nationally and internationally, and is an associate lecturer at Central Saint Martins. She’s been a member of the British Animation Awards jury and votes for BIFA. Other clients include: MTV International, The Jerwood Foundation, Channel 4 Television, The Barbican, Telefonica and the National Trust.
