Lisanne Skyler is an award-winning director and screenwriter of fiction nonfiction and branded films. Portraying subjects ranging from domestic violence and systemic racism to Las Vegas and the art world, Skyler's films have been official selections of Sundance, New York Film Festival, SxSW and the Venice Film Festival, and broadcast and/or streamed on HBO, PBS, Sundance Channel and international platforms worldwide.
Skyler received the Nantucket Film Festival’s Showtime Tony Cox Award for Best Short for her period drama CAPTURE THE FLAG, and an Independent Spirit Award “Someone to Watch” nomination and a FIPRESCI Award from the Stockholm Film Festival for her acclaimed feature GETTING TO KNOW YOU starring Heather Matarazzo, Zach Braff and Bebe Neuwirth, based on stories by iconic writer Joyce Carol Oates, and currently being digitally remastered for rerelease in 2024.
Skyler’s films include NO LOANS TODAY (Sundance, SxSW, PBS) DREAMLAND (PBS), the globally released HBO Documentary Film BRILLO BOX (3¢ off) (New York Film Festival, Oscar-shortlist, now on MAX), and, for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, A FEW THINGS ABOUT ROBERT IRWIN” for the LACMA Art + Film Gala, chaired by Eva Chow and Leonardo DiCaprio, and A FEW THINGS ABOUT ART + FILM (2020), sponsored by Gucci.
Skyler is represented by Matt DiPaolo, Zero Gravity Management, LA.
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