Liz Cardenas

Liz Cardenas is a 2022 Film Independent Spirit Award Winner for 7 Days, which she produced for Duplass Brothers Productions, and a 2019 Nominee for Never Goin’ Back (Sundance / A24), which she produced with Sailor Bear. She was also nominated for the Producer Award at the 2023 Indie Spirits. A few other notable producing credits include A Ghost Story, Acidman and Materna. Under her Ten to the Six Pictures, she has two features in post; one in pre-production, which she's directing; and five in various stages of development, one she's written. A former journalist, Liz co-created a successful series of family/kids films sold internationally and wrote and directed two award-winning short films. A Gotham Cannes Producers Network, Rotterdam Lab and Film Independent Fellow, she was included in the 2019 LATINXT, a curated list of emerging Latinx creators from an initiative by Zoe Saldana, Robert Rodriguez, and Lin-Manuel Miranda. Liz serves on the board of Breaking Through The Lens, a nonprofit organization that supports women directors, and she splits her time between Los Angeles and Dallas, where she grew up with her Hispanic father who immigrated to the US from Mexico City and Irish-American mother from the East Coast.