Filmmaker
Screen Writer
Movement Director
Filmmaker
Screen Writer
Movement Director
A creative polymath: Litza has produced work on stage, screen, mountains and in galleries. In her previous life as a film-movement specialist, she crafted movement and action for many iconic, award-winning films and shows. And her writing has won or been shortlisted in multiple competitions.
Themes: Litza creates absurd, whimsical worlds populated by fallen angels, cowgirls, lonely aliens, talking birds, witches and water-sucking monsters. Her work is embodied, visceral and set in visually evocative spaces, from desolate landscapes and crumbling rooms, to musical alternate realities, sinking ships and flying cities. In these worlds, her characters transform and move, they travel through wormholes, they fly and they fall, they drown in oceans and they disintegrate into dust. Litza is a dual national and often explores liminal spaces, thresholds and metaphorical journeys in her work.
Screenwriter: Litza specializes in high concept Horror, grounded Sci-Fi and Fantasy (animation & musical). Her work features strong female characters and ranges from light fantasy/adventure with universally resonant themes, to darker horror/sci-fi with sociopolitical and environmental themes. Litza believes that a good story shows us the world as it is, as well as how it could be and loves building interesting worlds and asking challenging questions.
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CHOREOGRAPHY
BMW ‘Flow’ 2019
Commercial Choreography Reel
Experimental Choreography Reel
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WRITING
Blood. Water. Dust.
12 June 2021
TV Series
Status: spec pilot, pitch doc, look book. Seeking partners.
Genre: Detective / Mexican Gothic Horror
Sheriff Blake wants to save her town. Dusty wants to break a curse. And Bola wants revenge.
In La Roja, drought isn’t the only thing to be afraid of.
LOGLINE: During the heatwave of 1978, a drought-ravaged American town is visited by a water-sucking entity with the horrifying ability to desiccate all it touches. And when the local Sheriff sets out to investigate, she encounters a bi-racial Maya girl (15) who has come to America in search of her father. Together, they must confront a centuries-old curse before the men and the town disintegrate into dust.
Finalist for Writer’s Lab UK (Dirty Films, Cate Blanchett) 2021
Quarter Finalist Blue Cat, Screen Craft 2020
The City of Clouds
25 May 2021
Feature Film (104 min)
Status: spec script, seeking partners
Genre: Animation / Fantasy / Adventure
LOGLINE: After her father disappears during a routine cargo flight, ten-year-old MAY discovers that she can fly. And on her quest to find him, she uncovers a secret about her ancestry and learns that flying isn’t the only surprising thing she can do.
WON: ISA Fellowship, Stowe Story Labs 2020
Quarter-Finalist: Screen Craft Animation 2020
Where the River Meets the Sea
11 April 2021
Feature Film (adaptation)
Status: First 15 pgs, outline, seeking partners
Genre: Dark Fantasy, Queer
LOGLINE: After a young lesbian shoots herself in the head and her corpse transmutes into gold, she’s ferried to a 'carnivalesque' limbo below the Cajun swamp. In this strange underworld, she must navigate Vodou tricksters, alchemists and her past in order to return to the living world and reverse the magic that’s wreaking havoc on her family.
adapted from the unpublished novel 'Where the River Meets the Sea' by Raven Hinojosa
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LATEST NEWS AND BLOGS
Blood. Water. Dust.
11 June 2021
My horror pilot “Blood. Water. Dust” was selected as a finalist for the Writer’s Lab UK. The lab is sponsored by Dirty Films (Cate Blanchett) and I’m thrilled to have my work recognized by such a fantastic organisation.
The Lodge ‘Tell It Like It Is’
8 April 2021
I love this little dance fight I choreographed for Disney’s YA show ‘The Lodge’. The boys did great!
I.S.A. Fellow
21 October 2020
Congratulations to Litza Bixler, the International Screenwriters’ Association Fellow to the 2020 October Narrative Lab. We look forward to working with Litza on her animated family feature project, THE CITY OF CLOUDS. The team at ISA had this to say about the project: “There is a voice here that we really responded to, sort of like a westerner’s take on a Miyazaki […]
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