Liz Charky

Liz Charky is an American filmmaker of Syrian-Lebanese, Sicilian, & Tonawanda-Seneca heritage, creating stories where cinema, documentary, and live-performance intersect. As a cinematographer, she collaborates on both narrative and documentary films, music videos, commercials, and dance-theater works that centralize and elevate underrepresented voices. She loves capturing quiet, honest and ethereal moments where she can bring her own sensitivity, femininity and intuition to the character’s experience in each shifting moment. She holds BA degrees in Film Studies and Dance from Connecticut College, where she studied performance, choreography, and directing with a focus on gender and queer studies. Liz is currently a Cinematography fellow at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, a 2021 recipient of an AFI/Audi Scholarship, and a student member of the Society of Camera Operators.