Lizette Barrera is a filmmaker whose work has screened at festivals and aired on networks worldwide, including her previously HBO-licensed short films Mosca (Fly) and ¡Cóme! (Eat!), the ESPN-licensed short documentary Mr. Pastor Jones, and her short film Chicle (Gum), which world premiered at SXSW.

She received the Austin Film Society’s Development Grant for her upcoming feature Chicle (Gum) and participated in AFS’s Artist Intensive hosted by Richard Linklater. She is also a recipient of the WarnerMedia OneFifty Grant, the SFFILM Rainin Grant, and was a past participant in the Gotham Market for the anthology feature Untitled Texas Latina Project, which she is co-creating with four Texas Latina directors. Lizette has also served as a showrunner’s assistant to Kat Candler.

In addition, Lizette is a WEBBY and TELLY award-winning branded content and commercial director and producer who has worked with EMMY-award-winning production companies in Dallas/Fort Worth.

She received her MFA in Film Production at the University of Texas at Austin and has previously served as a Senior Lecturer and Adjunct Assistant Professor at The University of Texas at Arlington.