Elizabeth Rose

Screenwriter/Director

Lizzie Rose is a Canadian-American screenwriter and director, working in both narrative and documentary filmmaking. Her short film THE LAW OF AVERAGES premiered at Clermont-Ferrand, played at Palm Springs, and won the Jury Prize at both Tallin Black Nights and the Provincetown International Film Festival. As a producer, Lizzie's short films have played internationally at festivals like TIFF and Telluride, won the student BAFTA, the Icelandic Academy Awards (the Edda) and sold to CANAL+ and HBO. She is the co-writer of a feature film, THE MALL, with Margot Robbie’s LuckyChap Entertainment (I, TONYA) and Emily Ziff Griffin (JACK GOES BOATING, CAPOTE) and Nikola Duravcevic producing. Lizzie was the Writer’s Assistant on RUSSIAN DOLL Season 2 (Netflix). Interview Magazine featured her as a writer/director to watch in 2017 and she is writing and developing multiple feature projects.


Lizzie has a BA (English Literature) from Harvard, where she studied documentary filmmaking as a part of the Sensory Ethnography Lab. She received an MFA in Screenwriting from Columbia University in 2017. At Columbia, she led the Columbia Women in Film advocacy group, taught an undergraduate seminar in documentary filmmaking, and received the inaugural Alex Sichel Fellowship for a promising female filmmaker with “bold vision, acute intelligence and overall curiosity and vitality”.