Lisa Enos

Lisa Enos is an award-winning director from Michigan. Her first job in film production was as an illustrator for Loxley Hall Productions, a children's film production company in Chicago, IL. Enos subsequently worked at Wieden + Kennedy Advertising in Portland, Oregon, and eventually found her niche directing children's films, including the award-winning series, "More Life Lessons." In 1996 Enos read a newspaper story about a Polish Jew who saved 54 children during the Holocaust and gave up children's films to make television documentaries for A&E for whom Enos penned and produced the film, "Angel of Bergen Belsen;" the first digital film to air on the network. She then went on to direct "Copycat Crimes," an anti-censorship documentary about real-life crimes based on ones committed in films. The film took her to Los Angeles, where she interviewed filmmakers Julia Phillips, John MacNaughton, etc. and developed a new found respect for the world of feature films. Enos stayed in Los Angeles and went on to co-write and produce the critically acclaimed, "ivansxtc," starring Danny Huston, Peter Weller and herself in the lead female role of Charlotte White. The film was nominated for four Independent Spirit Awards in 2003, including a personal nomination for Enos. Enos then moved to London to produce and star in the controversial horror satire, "Snuff-Movie," (Lionsgate UK) shot in London and Romania. The film made its debut at the Edinburgh Film Festival in 2004. Enos' other credits include "The Kreutzer Sonata," which she produced and co-wrote, starring Elisabeth Rohm and Danny Huston and "Mr. Nice," starring Rhys Ifans, David Thewlis, Crispin Glover and Chloe Sevigny. Enos wrote and directed her first feature-length narrative film, "State of Modern Love," completed in 2017. The film won Best Foreign Film and Enos won Best International Director at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival. In September of 2017 Enos began directing her second feature film, the thriller, "Prepper's Grove," expected to be completed by fall of 2018.