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Liz Lachman

No Escape: My Horrible Food Travels with Chef Susan Feniger …A Love Story

2023 Unpublished Contest - Runner-up (Nonfiction & Memoir)

Liz Lachman is an Emmy Award winning musician, and a Golden Reel Award winning music editor.

As a filmmaker, Liz’s documentary Susan Feniger. FORKED, also known as “A Culinary Disaster Film,” follows her spouse, Chef Susan Feniger, traveling the world gathering street food recipes for her first solo restaurant in Los Angeles … all which went horribly wrong.

Liz’s proof-of-concept, the psychological thriller Pin-Up, starring Angela Sarafyan (Westworld) and Christina Chang (The Good Doctor) won 30 festival awards, and Liz is in development on the feature.

Her short gay romantic comedy Getting to Know You, starring Dana Delaney and Ian Gomez, won nine festival awards.

As a writer, Liz has twice been a Quarter finalist and a Top 15% in the Academy Nicholl screenplay competition, Semifinalist and Quarterfinalist in the PAGE Screenplay Awards, and Semifinalist in the Final Draft Big Break screenplay competition.

Liz’s favorite things are classic Alfa Romeos and comic books. So yes, she’s actually a 12-year-old boy.

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