Liz Cardenas
Liz Cardenas is a 2022 Independent Spirit Award winner for Duplass Brothers Productions’ 7 DAYS (Tribeca ‘21 | Cinedigm), written and directed by Roshan Sethi (The Resident, Call Jane) starring Karan Soni (Deadpool, Ghostbusters, Safety Not Guaranteed) and Geraldine Viswanathan (Blockers, The Broken Hearts Gallery) and a 2019 Spirit Award Nominee for NEVER GOIN’ BACK (Sundance ‘18 | A24), directed by Augustine Frizzell (Euphoria, The Last Letter To Your Lover) starring Maia Mitchell (The Fosters, Good Trouble), Camila Morrone (Mickey and the Bear, Daisy Jones and the Six) and Kyle Mooney (Saturday Night Live, Brigsby Bear). She was also nominated for the Producer Award at the 2023 Spirit Awards.
A former reporter for The Dallas Morning News, Liz 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 and was one of only four producers to receive the inaugural 2022 Dear Producer Award. She co-created a series of successful family feature films and wrote and directed two award-winning short films, IMAGO and TREADING WATER. She’s currently developing the former into a TV series.
Other notable producing credits include ACIDIMAN (Tribeca 2022 | Brainstorm Media) directed by Alex Lehmann (Blue Jay, Paddleton, Meet Cute), starring Academy Award nominee actor Thomas Haden Church (Sideways, Spider-Man 3, Tombstone) and Dianna Agron (Glee, Shiva Baby); A GHOST STORY (Sundance ‘17 | A24), directed by David Lowery (The Green Knight, Pete’s Dragon), starring Academy Award nominee Rooney Mara (Carol, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) and Academy Award winner Casey Affleck (Manchester By the Sea, The Assassination of Jesse James); MATERNA (Utopia), which took home Best Cinematography and Best Actress awards at Tribeca 2020; and
Gotham Narrative Lab film, JULES OF LIGHT & DARK (Wolfe Releasing), which was the 2019 Outfest Best US Narrative Feature winner.
A Rotterdam Lab and Film Independent Fellow, she has two features in post and five features in development, one of which she’s written, under her Ten to the Six Pictures.
Liz is based in LA and Dallas, where she grew up with her Hispanic father who immigrated to the US from Mexico and Irish-American mother from the East Coast.