CV • Lisa Lomax — LISA LOMAX

SUMMARY: Lisa Lomax (formerly Lisa Biagiotti) is a writer and storyteller working across genre. She is a former investigative journalist and documentary filmmaker with more than fifteen (15) years of interdisciplinary media experience. Key strengths: story forecasting; scaling intimate stories into vivid narratives; incisive interviewing and interpersonal skills; multi-disciplinary collaborations; and, unpacking complex ideas into clear, consistent and substantive stories.

EDUCATION

2008 | M.S., with distinction, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New York, NY
2002 | Fulbright Award, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
2001 | B.A., Magna cum laude, triple major in philosophy, modern history and Italian literature, University of Scranton, Scranton, PA

AWARDS / HONORS

2023 | Creative Ireland Climate Action Fund II: Agents for Change Grant, Dublin, Ireland — Room with a View
2022 | Short story finalist (long-listed), Cúirt New Writing Prize, Cúirt International Festival of Literature, Galway, Ireland
2020 | Invited member, Guild of Future Architects
2016 | Staff, The Los Angeles Times, Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting, Los Angeles, CA
2014 | Invited presenter, White House Summit Meeting on HIV/AIDS in the Southern U.S., Washington, DC
2014 | Sundance Artist-in-Residence, MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA
2014 | Most Captivating Voices of 2014, HIV Equal Online
2014 | Finalist (long-listed), Ridenhour Documentary Film Prize, The Ridenhour Prizes
2014 | Finalist, Livingston Award for National Reporting, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
2014 | deepsouth documentary film accolades

Award for Freedom, Outfest Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA
Official Selection, Human Rights Watch Film Festival Traveling Tour (multiple cities)
Best Documentary Feature, Polari Film Festival, Austin, TX
Best Feature Documentary, Pensacola LGBT Film Festival (ACLU of Florida), Pensacola, FL
Best Documentary and Audience Favorite Award, Outflix Film Festival, Memphis, TN
SHOUT! LGBT Best Documentary, Sidewalk Film Festival, Birmingham, AL

2013 | Arkansas Traveler (honorary title/goodwill ambassador), State of Arkansas
2009 | Award recipient, Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, Washington, DC
*International Television category for “Crisis in Congo” docu-series
2009 | Nominee, National News Emmy Award, National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, New York, NY
2001 | Fulbright Award, U.S. Department of State, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy
*Research: Italian colonialism in Africa, and current Muslim migration trends into Italy and throughout Europe.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2022 | Lomax, L. “The Sound of a Midlife Crisis.” 20 Decades of 2020: Anthology, edited by Jessica Clark, GoFa Press, 2022, pp. 68-74.
2021 | Lomax, L. “Marfa, Texas” Archaeillogical (art book).
2020 | Lomax, L. “The Sound of a Midlife Crisis” GoFAR Magazine.
2016 | Biagiotti, L. “Life along a concrete river” Los Angeles Times.
2012 | Biagiotti, L. “AIDS—the South’s shame” Los Angeles Times.
2010 | Biagiotti, L. “AIDS in the Bible Belt” PBS Need to Know.
2009 | Biagiotti, L. “Generations meet in Jamaica’s Chinese cemetery” Huffington Post.

DOCUMENTARY FILMS

2019 | Redemption Square, Narrator/Subject, Independent documentary film (19 min.)
2017 | Why We Fight, Director, Ep. 105, ESPN (45 min.)
2017 | On the Streets, Director, 12-part docu-series, Los Angeles Times (72 min.)
2014 | deepsouth, Director and Producer (72 min.)
2010 | The World’s Toilet Crisis, Writer and Producer, Ep. 403, Vanguard, CURRENT TV (45 min.)
2008 | Crisis in Congo, Writer and Producer, documentary series, Worldfocus on PBS (12 min.)

SELECTED LECTURES / SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

2023 | Adjunct Professor, College of Communication, Boston University , Boston, MA
2022 | Guest Lecturer, Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, County Clare, Ireland
2020 | Invited Presenter, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA
2018 | Guest Lecturer, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New York, NY
2016 | Panel Moderator, TBWA\Chiat\Day, Venice, CA
2014 | Invited presenter, White House Summit Meeting on HIV/AIDS in the Southern U.S., Washington, DC
2014 | Invited Presenter, International Journalism Festival, Perugia, Italy
2014 | Panel moderator, Clinton Global Initiative University, Tempe, Arizona
2014 | Guest Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
2014 | Guest Lecturer, Duke Public Health Institute, Durham, NC
2014 | Guest Lecturer, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
2014 | Guest Lecturer, Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, Tifton, GA
2013 | Guest Lecturer, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD
2012 | Invited Presenter, American Institutes for Research, Washington, D.C.

SELECTED PRESS

Alcorn, J. (2016). “Can Short Documentaries Help Legacy Newsrooms Engage?” Media Shift.
Spiro, S. (2014). “deepsouth: An Interview with Filmmaker Lisa Biagiotti” The Huffington Post.
Curry, T. (2014). “HIV Equal Online’s Most Captivating Voices of 2014” HIV Equal Online.
Wiltz, T. (2014). “Southern states are now the epicenter of HIV/AIDS in the U.S.” The Washington Post.
Stillman, S. (2014). “H.I.V.’s Grip on the American South” The New Yorker.
Heald, R. (2013). “Strengthening the voices of the unheard” The Lancet.
Pandolfi, E. (2013). “deepsouth explores the HIV/AIDS epidemic where it’s most deadly” Charleston City Paper.
Crossley, C. (2013). “HIV: The Silent Epidemic in the South” The Takeaway. (NPR)
Kaufman, A. (2013). “Docuptopia #52: Human Rights Docs and the Global Gay Rights Fight” SundanceNOW.
Hamblin, J. (2013). “Staying Alive in the Rural South” The Atlantic.
Lehrer, Brian. (2013). “Freedom Films” Brian Lehrer TV.
Kopian, S. (2013). “deepsouth: Human Rights Watch Film Festival” Unseen Films.
Bookey, S.J. (2013). “Safeguarding Brave Hearts” Gay City News.
Scucces, A. (2013). “deepsouth: a three-year road trip to the American South” ProNews.it. (Italy)
Husted, A. (2013). “Human Rights in the Watchword” Film Linc.
Oliver, K. (2013). “Advocates discuss AIDS in the South with deepsouth film” The Opelika-Auburn News.
Vawda, H. (2013). “deepsouth: An Interview with Lisa Biagiotti” Polari Magazine. (UK)
Mala, L. (2013). “DIY Journalism/Giornalismo fai da te” la Repubblica. (Italy)
Moore, J. (2013). “Translating public health into media.” Columbia Journalism Review.
Upton, D.W. (2013). “Interview: Lisa Biagiotti: ‘Southerners tell me how normal the film is’” So So Gay. (UK)
Hix, M. (2013). “Q&A with Lisa Biagiotti” Fringe!. (UK)
Helsel, A. (2013). “Deep Topics” Jackson Free Press.
Kearnan, S. (2013). “GO DEEP” Fenway Focus.
Gibson, D. (2013). “deepsouth: a documentary around, not about, HIV” Daily Kos.
Davis, K. (2013). “Filmmaker explores HIV/AIDS epidemic in hardest-hit region” The Times and Democrat.
Silverberg, C. (2012). “Excellent New Documentary Explores HIV in the Southern U.S.” About Sexuality.
Bey, J. (2012). “Spar with Jamila Bey: deepsouth Doc Explores the Fight Against HIV/AIDS in the U.S. South” The Voice of Russia. (radio interview)
Kafka, A. (2012). “Filmmaker Interview: Lisa Biagiotti” Oxford American.
Gutierrez, Jr., O. (2012). “Rolling in the Deep” POZ Magazine.
Baksh, Stokely. (2012). “The Dark Room: HIV in the American South” The Baltimore Sun.
Anderson, V. (2012). “Silent South” A&U Magazine.
Shah, N. (2012). “AIDS Conference, New Documentary Raise Questions About Sex Ed.” Education Week.
Staff, (2012). “Duke HIV Research Inspires Documentary” Duke Global Health Institute.
Terrell, K. (2012). “deepsouth, a New HIV/AIDS Documentary Premiers this July” The Body.

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