Lisa Molomot

Documentary filmmaker Lisa Molomot hails from Tucson, Arizona and has been working in film for over 20 years. Her work includes award-winning pieces like The Hill (2013), School’s Out: Lessons from a Forest Kindergarten (2013) and Teaching in Arizona (2018). As a 2019 Fulbright Scholarship recipient, Molomot passionately produces and directs emotionally impactful documentaries, while also commissioning works for nonprofits and arts organizations across North America. Molomot has taught filmmaking at Yale University and Wesleyan University, and currently teaches at The University of Arizona. Her film Missing in Brooks County (Mountainfilm 2021), which she co-directed with Jeff Bemiss, follows two families as they search for missing loved ones in the vast ranch lands of Brooks County, Texas — a common site of migrant deaths. She was also the recipient of a 2018 Mountainfilm Commitment Grant.