Liz Canner is an American filmmaker who makes documentaries, digital public art installations and new media projects on human rights issues.
In 2009 Canner directed The New York Times Critic's Pick Orgasm Inc.: The Strange Science of Female Pleasure (2009),[1] a feature-length investigative documentary on the pharmaceutical industry and women's health.
She has been the recipient of over 50 awards, honors and grants for her work including a Rockefeller Foundation Next Generation Leadership Fellowship for "creating innovative media projects that strengthen democracy",[2] a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, a Radcliffe Institute (Bunting) Film/Video Fellowship from Harvard University [3] and the Visionary Award from Dartmouth College.
A native of Massachusetts, Canner lives in Vermont and New York City, with her husband, Alex Barnett.
She previously lived with writer Pagan Kennedy in a set-up they have described as similar to a Boston marriage.