Liza Donnelly - Sundance Collab

Liza Donnelly is a writer, award winning cartoonist for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and is the Director along with Kathleen Hughes of Women Laughing, a 2025 Documentary. Keenly aware of the similarites shared by film and cartoons, she seeks to explore that in story and combine live action with animation. Liza is the creator of a form of visual journalism with her digital live-drawings, has covered news and cultural events for The New Yorker, The New York Times, CBS, CNN in real time, telling the story of events as they happen on social media. She is the author of 18 books for adults and children. Her most recent (2022) is Very Funny Ladies.

My work:

Document

Seeing Things

Creator: Liza Donnelly

Seeing Things

Creator: Liza Donnelly

Confronting her simmering identity crisis, a cartoonist’s characters come to life and confuse her efforts to uncover her true (whatever that is) self.

Document

The Fish In The Elevator

Creator: Liza Donnelly

The Fish In The Elevator

Creator: Liza Donnelly

Set in New York City in the 1980's, a young woman struggles to find her voice as a cartoonist while everyone around her tells her what to do, including her own animated cartoon characters. The film explores the pressures to conform as felt by a female humorist.