About

Liz Fields is an Asian-Australian-American writer and filmmaker who has lived in and traveled to 40 different countries across six continents. A Chinese adoptee raised by Australians in South East Asia, Liz has spent her life chasing stories that highlight the complex emotions surrounding cultural displacement and characters seeking their identity, no matter the cost.

Her work across film and TV has earned her numerous awards and accolades, including a Gracie Award, a GLAAD Nomination, a James Beard Media Award, and Television Academy Honors, which recognizes exceptional programs and their producers who have leveraged the power of television to fuel social change. 

A former journalist, Liz first developed her reporting chops in the newsrooms of ABC and VICE, where she interviewed everyone from spies and drug dealers to preachers and insurgent groups. In 2016, Liz documented the insanity of the modern American condition as a presidential campaign embed, and went on to write, direct, and produce stories for HBO, Netflix, Hulu, PBS, and more.

Liz is a graduate of the New Writers Fellowship with CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment) and was featured on Austin Film Festival’s 15 Screenwriters to Watch list in 2022. Her episodic scripts have received finalist laurels from multiple major script competitions, including the Austin Film Festival, Slamdance, PAGE and more. Liz’s first feature, Belonging, won Atlanta Film Festival’s 2024 feature screenplay award and third prize at the CineStory Foundation Feature Fellowship awards.

Liz lives in Los Angeles and is represented by Zero Gravity Management.

In 2024 I started production on my narrative short, Girl | Dad, slated for release in 2025. More to come!

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