Lisa Hurwitz

Teaches at Museum of the City of New York - Public

A native of Los Angeles, Lisa received a liberal arts degree from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington during which time she volunteered as a 35 mm projectionist at the Olympia Film Society and became staff of the theater. Lisa went on to work at arts organizations in Washington and later moved to New York City, where she worked as a publicist. Her first feature film, The Automat, premiered at The 2021 Telluride Film Festival. The film grossed nearly $250k in U.S. box office alone and to date is the most successful theatrically self-distributed documentary in the U.S. since before the pandemic. Her next project, a narrative romantic comedy film set in Italy, is currently in development.