Liz Cardenas

Liz Cardenas is an award-winning producer, writer, director and actor. Nominated for Producer Award at the 2023 Independent Spirit Awards, she won Best First Feature in 2022 for 7 DAYS and was nominated for the John Cassavetes Award in 2019 for NEVER GOIN’ BACK (A24). A Gotham Cannes Producers Network, Rotterdam Lab and Film Independent Fellow, Liz was included in the 2019 LATINXT, a list of emerging Latinx creators from an initiative by Zoe Saldana, Robert Rodriguez and Lin-Manuel Miranda. She has seven features under her Ten to the Six Pictures, including one she’s set to direct. She's based in LA and Dallas, where she was raised by her father who immigrated to the US from Mexico and her mother from the East Coast. Other notable credits include A GHOST STORY, ACIDIMAN and MATERNA.