Lizzie Gillett

Lizzie heads up development and produces feature documentaries at the award-winning documentary company, Passion Pictures, which is best known for the Academy Award winning 'Searching for Sugar Man' and 'One Day in September'. Lizzie's currently producing a feature documentary about Jackie Collins for CNN Films, the BBC and AGC. She helped produce the Netflix hit documentary, 'Circus Of Books', about a nice Jewish couple who ran a porn store in LA. This is the debut documentary from artist Rachel Mason, who finally asks the least radical people she knows- her parents- how they became American's biggest distributors of gay porn. Executive produced by Ryan Murphy, the film premiered at TriBeCa and screened at London Film Festival, it has 100% fresh reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, and has garnered critical acclaim. "An almost perfect movie" - Indiewire "Very funny, very moving documentary" - Hollywood Reporter Lizzie is the producer of the climate change documentary, The Age of Stupid. The film was Number One at the UK box office, and screened on TV, DVD and in cinemas around the world. Lizzie managed 105 people in six countries and alongside the film's director Franny Armstrong she pioneered and implemented the enormously successful "crowd-funding" scheme raising £900,000 from 300+ people. She was featured by Harpers Bazaar magazine as a "21st century heroine", one of twenty "exceptional women changing the world for the better through the work they do" and by Vogue as one of the UK's leading "female eco-warriors". She was named "European Green Trailblazer of the year" at industry heavyweight event, Mipcom, and awarded the prize in Cannes.