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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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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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