LIZ FIELDS
Writer | Filmmaker
Liz Fields is an Asian-Australian-American writer and filmmaker who has lived in and traveled to 40 different countries across six continents. A Chinese adoptee raised by Australians in South East Asia, Liz has spent her life chasing stories that highlight the complex emotions surrounding cultural displacement and characters seeking their identity, no matter the cost.Her work across film and TV has earned her numerous awards and accolades, including a Gracie Award, a GLAAD Nomination, two James Beard Media Awards, and Television Academy Honors, which recognizes exceptional programs and their producers who have leveraged the power of television to fuel social change.A former journalist and Columbia J-school grad, Liz first developed her reporting chops in the newsrooms of ABC and VICE, where she interviewed everyone from spies and drug dealers to preachers and insurgent groups. In 2016, Liz documented the insanity of the modern American condition as a presidential campaign embed, and went on to write, direct, and produce stories for HBO, Netflix, Hulu, PBS, and more.Liz is a graduate of the New Writers Fellowship with CAPE (Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment) and was featured on Austin Film Festival’s 15 Screenwriters to Watch list in 2022. Her episodic scripts have received finalist laurels from multiple major script competitions, including the Austin Film Festival, Slamdance, PAGE and more. Liz’s first feature, Belonging, won Atlanta Film Festival’s 2024 feature screenplay award and third prize at the CineStory Foundation Feature Fellowship awards.Liz brings the same narrative ambition to audio, creating and directing original podcast series that span genres, including "Hyperdrive," a sci-fi thriller erotica starring Manny Jacinto, and "Imperfect Match," a rom-com series set across Italy (written while working in Rome), starring Arden Cho.Most recently, Liz wrote and directed the award-winning short film Girl | Dad starring Sherry Cola and Chris Tallman.
QUINN
HYPERDRIVE
Dive into a sci-fi erotic thriller audio series starring Manny Jacinto (The Acolyte, Freakier Friday).
MASTERCLASS
G.O.A.T.
Check out a James Beard Media Award-winning series featuring three master chefs at the top of their craft.
HULU
TASTE THE NATION
EXPLORE KOREAN NEW YEAR'S TRADITIONS IN K-TOWN COUNTDOWN, STARRING EDDIE NAM, DUMBFOUNDEAD & MORE.
NETFLIX
THE BUSINESS OF DRUGS
Six drugs, six supply chains, one former CIA analyst following the money.
MEET CUTE
(IM)PERFECT MATCH
Arden Cho plays a matchmaker hired by a billionaire whose own dating app couldn't find him a match. They travel across Italy. swoon.
HBO
VICE NEWS
THE WORLD IS A DUMPSTER FIRE. WE FILMED IT FROM THREE FEET AWAY AND MADE AN EMMY AWARD-WINNING SHOW THAT PEEKED BEHIND THE CURTAIN.
GIRL | DAD FILM
Four decades after an eccentric father builds his adopted Chinese daughter a playhouse to shield her from a world that won't accept her, dementia forces her to become the architect of his fading memory.Starring Sherry Cola and Chris Tallman, the film won Best Drama Short at Coney Island Film Festival, and will have its LA premiere at the Academy Award and BAFTA qualifying LA Shorts International Film Festival in August 2026.Girl | Dad also won Gold House's inaugural AAPI Rally and was nominated for Best First Time Director at Big Apple Film Festival. It has received official selection laurels at Atlanta Shortsfests, Immigration Film Fest in D.C. and was a top five finalist for Shorescripts Finishing Funds in 2026.
PRESS & TIDBITS
TELEVISION ACADEMY HONORS
we made a show during the pandemic. it did well.
Taste the Nation: Holiday Edition (Hulu, Part 2 Pictures). Turns out an award show will give you a trophy for making people cry about stuffing.
AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL
15 SCREENWRITERS TO WATCH LIST
My mom has been saying this for years...
Coalition of Asian Pacifics in Entertainment
New Writer's Fellowship
Mentored by people who'd actually done the thing I was pretending I could do. Years later, and they're still somehow answering my texts.
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