Elizabeth Witham comes from Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. She received her BA in International Studies from Kenyon College in Ohio. She first became interested in documentary film while traveling internationally. Before coming to Stanford she worked on independent projects in Massachusetts, Washington D.C., and Israel. She has also enjoyed working in the music business, and founded an independent record label, Front Door Records, with her family. In the future she hopes to work on projects in Asia.

Blues Variations
digital video
16:40 min.

Blues Variations is a portrait of three very different blues musicians, and how each of them understands and manifests the blues in the context of their own lives.

Stealing Air
16mm, color film
7 min.

Stealing Air is a film about pirate radio in the Bay Area. DJs from Free Radio Santa Cruz, Liberation Radio, and the former Berkeley Liberation Radio discuss why they risk fines and jail to broadcast illegally in the name of free speech.

Precipice
Co-directed by Elisabeth James and Elizabeth Witham
digital video
10 min.

Precipice is a short digital video that plays host to a discussion about genetic engineering, bioethics, the future form of the human body, and the possibility of agelessness.

FESTIVALS AND SCREENINGS:

• Student Academy Awards Regional Finalist, 2002
• Crested Butte Reel Fest, 2002
• Rencontres Internationales, Paris/Berlin, 2002
• President's Council on Bioethics Screening, 2002

Beautiful Road
16mm, black and white film
2 min.

Beautiful Road chronicles the musical career of the filmmaker's mother, singer Kate Taylor.