Liz Van Verth - Par Avion

Liz Van Verth is a filmmaker from Buffalo, NY, who received her BFA in Illustration at Syracuse and her MFA at Pratt Institute in New York.

She worked as a graphic artist for NBC Nightly News and eventually as a 3-D animator for show graphics on Dateline NBC. She has also worked on projects for both CBS Sports and MTV.

She also has taught at Pratt Institute and Lehman College, and currently teaches at the Kansas City Art Institute.

Her MFA thesis animation is called , which won Best Concept for the Department of Digital Arts at the Pratt Show and was screened at the Brooklyn International Film Festival KidsFest and the MergingArts Short Short Story Film Festival, where it was nominated for a Heartstrings Award for emotive storytelling.