Liz Manne Strategy works with clients in entertainment, advocacy, and the arts to grow their enterprises, achieve results, and make meaningful change.

SERVICES

Bridging the worlds of entertainment and social change, Liz Manne Strategy provides customized senior advisory services to nonprofit organizations, pro-social businesses, and progressive campaigns and causes. To help clients achieve their awareness, impact, and business goals, we offer narrative, cultural, and brand strategy; strategic planning and program planning; creative campaign content; and more.

Videos

FILMS

Complete Filmography

Producing:

  • 3 Backyards starring Edie Falco (Screen Media), Co-producer

  • Lucky (HBO Documentaries), Executive Producer

  • A Dog Year starring Jeff Bridges (HBO Films), Producer

  • Fall From Grace (Showtime), Executive Producer

  • The Heart of the Game (Miramax), Producer


    • Marketing & Sales

  • American Splendor, Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini Academy Award nominee, Cannes winner, Golden Globe nominee, Independent Spirit nominee, Sundance winner

  • An Angel at my Table, Jane Campion Independent Spirit winner, Venice winner

  • Chutney Popcorn, Nisha Ganatra GLAAD nominee

  • Crash, David Cronenberg Cannes winner

  • Deconstructing Harry, Woody Allen Academy Award nominee

  • Elephant, Gus Van Sant Cannes Palme d’Or winner

  • Entre Nos, Paola Mendoza Tribeca winner

  • Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry, George Butler

  • Gummo, Harmony Korine Gotham winner, Venice winner

  • Hoop Dreams, Steve James Sundance winner, Academy Award nominee

  • The Hunting of the President, Nickolas Perry & Harry Thomason

  • The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love, Maria Maggenti GLAAD winner

  • Last Days, Gus Van Sant Cannes winner, Independent Spirit nominee

  • Margaret Cho: Beautiful, CHO Revolution, I’m the One that I Want, Notorious C.H.O.

  • Maria Full of Grace, Joshua Marston Academy Award nominee, Gotham winner, Independent Spirit winner, Sundance winner

  • Matewan, John Sayles Academy Award nominee, Independent Spirit winner

  • Metropolitan, Whit Stillman Sundance winner, Academy Award nominee

  • Once Were Warriors, Lee Tamahori Venice winner

  • The Player, Robert Altman Academy Award nominee, Cannes winner, Golden Globe winner, Independent Spirit winner

  • Pollock, Ed Harris Academy Award winner, Independent Spirit nominee

  • Real Women Have Curves, Patricia Cardoso Independent Spirit winner, Sundance winner

  • A Room With A View, James Ivory Academy Award Winner

  • Roger Waters The Wall, Roger Waters & Sean Evans

  • Salaam Bombay!, Mira Nair Academy Award nominee, Cannes Camera d’Or winner

  • Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Steven Soderbergh Academy Award nominee, Cannes Palme d’Or winner, Golden Globe nominee, Independent Spirit winner, Sundance winner

  • Shine, Scott Hicks Academy Award winner, Golden Globe winner

  • Short Cuts, Robert Altman Academy Award nominee, Golden Globe winner, Independent Spirit winner, Venice winner

  • To Sleep With Anger, Charles Burnett Independent Spirit winner, Sundance winner

  • Spanking the Monkey, David O. Russell Independent Spirit winner, Sundance winner

  • Stop Making Sense, Jonathan Demme

  • Straight Out of Brooklyn, Matty Rich Independent Spirit winner, Sundance winner

  • The Sweet Hereafter, Atom Egoyan Academy Award nominee, Cannes winner, Independent Spirit winner

  • Swimming to Cambodia, Jonathan Demme Independent Spirit nominee

BIO

Bridging the worlds of entertainment and social change, Liz Manne Strategy provides customized senior advisory services to nonprofit organizations, pro-social businesses, and progressive campaigns and causes. To help clients achieve their awareness, impact, and business goals, we offer narrative, cultural, and brand strategy; strategic planning and program planning; creative campaign content; and more. 

An expert in cultural strategy for social change, Liz was the co-director of Story at Scale, a narrative research project to advance gender justice. She conceptualized and served as editorial director for #PopJustice: Social Justice and the Promise of Pop Culture Strategies. She was a co-founder and co-director of The Culture Group, a pop-up think tank of artists and advocates, and served as editorial director for the group’s educational handbook, Making Waves: A Guide to Cultural Strategy. 

Her creative content collaborations include the Midwest Culture Lab, a project of the Alliance for Youth Organizing that integrates cultural organizing with grassroots, youth organizing; the Peoria Project, a research effort led by Catalist that provides a new approach to understanding and communicating with American voters; and Dadaab Stories, a digital storytelling platform from the world’s largest refugee camp.   

Liz was the executive director of the humanitarian NGO FilmAid International and as a senior media industry professional (HBO Films, SundanceTV, and Fine Line Features), Liz helped shepherd more than 100 critically acclaimed and award-winning films to market, including the seminal documentary Hoop Dreams, Maria Full of Grace, Elephant, My Own Private Idaho, Shine and The Player.   

During the administration of President Barack Obama, Liz served on the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. She has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 1997. Liz holds a BA in Dramatic Art from University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business.   

Liz began her entertainment career as a stagehand with the legendary San Francisco rock and roll concert promoter Bill Graham Presents.