Lisa Valencia-Svensson

Lisa Valencia-Svensson

About

Lisa is an award winning producer whose first documentary HERMAN'S HOUSE won an Outstanding Arts & Culture Programming Emmy and broadcast on POV.  Her second feature MIGRANT DREAMS was awarded a Canadian Hillman Prize.

Call Her Ganda

Call Her Ganda

Grassroots activists in the Philippines are spurred into action when a local transgender woman is found dead in a motel room with a 19-year-old U.S. marine as the leading suspect. As they demand answers and a just trial, hidden histories of U.S. colonization come bubbling to the surface.

The House That Herman Built

The House That Herman Built

Art student Jackie Sumell asks Herman Wallace, a black panther activist who's been imprisoned in continuous solitary confinement longer than anyone in American history, to describe his ideal house.