Liza Johnson

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Liza Johnson

Born December 13, 1970 · Portsmouth, Ohio, USA (age 55)

Liza Johnson (born December 13, 1970) is an American film director, producer, and writer. Along with her collection of short films, Johnson has directed four feature films, including Return (2011), Hateship, Loveship (2013), and Elvis & Nixon (2016).

Known For

Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks MovieSaving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie · 2024
Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie
6.12024
MovieFamilyComedy
When Bikini Bottom is scooped from the ocean, scientific squirrel Sandy Cheeks and her pal SpongeBob SquarePants saddle up for Texas to save their town.
Elvis & NixonElvis & Nixon · 2016
Elvis & Nixon
6.02016
MovieDramaComedy
In 1970, a few days before Christmas, Elvis Presley showed up on the White House lawn seeking to be deputized into the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs by the President himself.
Hateship LoveshipHateship Loveship · 2014
Hateship Loveship
5.82014
MovieDrama
A shy caretaker believes that the father of her teenage charge is falling in love with her, unaware that she is actually the victim of the girl's prank.
ReturnReturn · 2011
Return
6.42011
MovieDrama
Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.
The Stink of FleshThe Stink of Flesh · 2005
The Stink of Flesh
3.92005
MovieComedyHorror
Nathan and Dexy struggle to maintain an open marriage after a zombie plague has killed the majority of the population. It's up to Nathan to find survivors to pleasure his wife and hot zombies to satisfy his own lust.
When the Dogs TalkedWhen the Dogs Talked · 2014
When the Dogs Talked
2014
MovieDocumentaryDrama
As a group of Indigenous adults argue about whether to save their government housing or their sacred landscape, their children struggle to decide how the ancestral Dreaming makes sense in their contemporary lives. Listening to music on their ipods, walking though bush lands, and boating across seas, they follow their parents on a journey to reenact the travel of the Dog Dreaming. Along the way individuals run out of stamina and boats out of gas, and the children press their parents and each other about why these stories matter and how they make sense in the context of Western understandings of evolution, the soundscapes of hip hop, and the technologies of land development. "When the Dogs Talked" mixes documentary and fiction to produce a thoughtful yet humorous drama about the everyday obstacles of structural and racialized poverty and the dissonance of cultural narratives and social forms. —Elizabeth A. Povinelli
South of TenSouth of Ten · 2006
South of Ten
2006
MovieDocumentary
A girl flees a makeshift tent city. A man finds a trombone. A worker watches the ocean from under a moving house, while its owner gazes at the view from her shifting living room. In ten very short stories, residents of the destroyed Mississippi Gulf Coast act out atmospheric scenes of everyday life and the relentlessness of labor in their extreme landscape.
American Horror StoryAmerican Horror Story · 2011
American Horror Story
8.12011
SeriesDramaMystery
An anthology horror drama series centering on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an asylum, a witch coven, a freak show, a hotel, a farmhouse in Roanoke, a cult, the apocalypse and a summer camp.

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When the Dogs TalkedWhen the Dogs Talked · 2014
When the Dogs Talked
2014
MovieDocumentaryDrama
As a group of Indigenous adults argue about whether to save their government housing or their sacred landscape, their children struggle to decide how the ancestral Dreaming makes sense in their contemporary lives. Listening to music on their ipods, walking though bush lands, and boating across seas, they follow their parents on a journey to reenact the travel of the Dog Dreaming. Along the way individuals run out of stamina and boats out of gas, and the children press their parents and each other about why these stories matter and how they make sense in the context of Western understandings of evolution, the soundscapes of hip hop, and the technologies of land development. "When the Dogs Talked" mixes documentary and fiction to produce a thoughtful yet humorous drama about the everyday obstacles of structural and racialized poverty and the dissonance of cultural narratives and social forms. —Elizabeth A. Povinelli

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