Elizabeth Landesberg

Elizabeth (EB) Landesberg is a filmmaker, producer, educator and translator, based in Columbia, SC. She is currently a full-time instructor in Media Arts at the University of South Carolina.

EB has collaborated with young people through educational programs, media workshops and community organizations in the US, Canada, Peru, Mexico, Tanzania and Bolivia. She received her MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts from Duke University in 2013. As a post-MFA Felsman Documentary Fellow in 2014-15, she facilitated documentary workshops with teenagers in Lima, Peru, who researched and created projects about their own communities, families and cultures. It is with two of these teenagers that the Syrian members of Another Kind of Girl Collective began their first cross-border collaboration, the result of which was the feature film Only the Ocean Between Us, which had its world premiere at Hot Docs (2021). She was also a Visiting Fellow at the 2019 Skidmore Storytellers Institute, and director of the Lewis Hine Documentary Fellows Program from 2015-2021 . Her experimental and personal films revolve around themes of labor, power, memory, mourning, humor and culture; and her latest short film premiered at Cosmic Rays and Mimesis Documentary Festival, 2020.  Her work as a translator and interpreter has spanned solidarity translations for social movements and community organizations, in addition to translating and subtitling film projects from several countries. She is committed to media-making as a tool for individual and community cultural affirmation and self-determination.