Filmmaker
Screen Writer
Movement Director
Filmmaker
Screen Writer
Movement Director
Litza is a choreographer, filmmaker, artist and writer who has directed and produced work on stage, on screen, in galleries and up mountains. Her choreography is often absurd and humorous and she deliberately plays with artifice and performative masks to reveal deeper human truths. Her writing is about what happens when worlds collapse – socially, politically, environmentally, and psychologically – and she’s written screenplays, a novel and a television pilot. Whether at work or at play, Litza will happily nerd out about politics, Psychopharmacology and Miyazaki movies. She loves a good espresso and spends her spare time training in Aikido, playing video games, painting, gardening and sculpting miniature food out of clay.
Regardless of form, the transforming body is at the centre of her work. Bodies travel through wormholes and across desolate landscapes; they fly above floating cities and fall through crumbling rooms; they dance into musical alternate realities and time-travel via fractals; they drown in oceans and they disintegrate into dust. Bodies are broken and rebuilt, deconstructed and reconstructed, trapped and set free. And at the heart of every character, whether written or devised, is a body that moves. Sometimes with others, sometimes alone. Sometimes frenetic and sometimes graceful. These are bodies that vibrate, even when still. Bodies that speak, even when silent. And bodies that listen without words.
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CHOREOGRAPHY
Masks All The Way Down
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WRITING
Blood, Water, Dust
20 October 2022
Television Series / Novel
Status: Spec pilot, pitch doc, look-book, bible
Sheriff Blake wants to save her town. Dusty wants to break a curse. And Bola wants revenge.
LOGLINE: In a two stoplight town plagued by drought, the dried-up husks of men start to appear. When the local Sheriff investigates, she encounters a bi-racial Maya girl (15) who is haunted by a centuries old curse.
Top Ten Pilots Filmmarket Hub 2023
Top Ten Horror I.S.A. Table Read Austin
Finalist Writer’s Lab UK 2021
Quarter Finalist Blue Cat, Screen Craft 2020
The Pareto Principle
24 January 2022
Feature Film (110 min)
Status: spec script, director attached
Comps: It’s Stephen King’s Carrie with a dance twist, inside a dark mirror version of a classic 80s teen movie.
Music, magic and dance collide in a surreal and kaleidoscopic tale about power, passion & punishment.
LOGLINE: An unlikely friendship between a sexually fluid Brit and a wealthy debutante ends in horror – when a spell spirals out of control on prom night and turns a throng of dancing teens into a deadly danse-macabre.
The City of Clouds
25 December 2021
Feature Film (104 min)
Status: spec script
Comps: The adventure of His Dark Materials (Pullman); the tone of Spirited Away (Miyazaki); the rotoscoped look of Undone.
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
Semi-Finalist: Screen Craft Animation, New Voices in Animation, Creative Screenwriting Animation
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LATEST NEWS AND BLOGS
Masks All The Way Down
24 September 2024
We’re delighted that our film ‘Masks All The Way Down’ has been accepted into the Exeter Dance International Film Festival (EDIFF) and has been nominated for Best Choreography and Dance Ensemble. The festival takes place on the 19th / 20th of October in Exeter, UK. For further info, click HERE.
Bodies, Borders & Belonging
13 May 2024
Nice to hear that Bodies, Borders and Belonging was nominated for best in category (Digital Arts) at the Climax Film Festival. It didn’t win, but it was still lovely to know that the film was appreciated and recognized in this way. Especially as the project was intended as a live-art exhibit and we ended up […]
Masks All The Way Down
22 March 2024
Woo hoo! We’ve finally completed the short dance film ‘Masks All The Way Down’. We made this in collaboration with dance students from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2022. Self funded with additional support in kind from the Dance Department at UW-Madison and amazing work from filmmaker Aaron Granat (cinematographer, editor, sound design). The […]
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