Liz Kearney is an Australian producer based in Melbourne and has produced numerous feature films, tv series and short films.

Liz produced her first feature These Final Hours in 2013. The film premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival in 2013 and screened in Cannes as part of Directors’ Fortnight in 2014.

Alongside Robert Connolly and Maggie Miles, Liz produced the Australian film Paper Planes. The family feature was released by Village Roadshow and grossed almost $10m at the Australian box office. The film screened at numerous festivals including Toronto and Berlin and won the inaugural Cinefest Oz Film Prize in 2014.

In 2017 alongside producers Robert Connolly and John Harvey, Liz produced the comedy drama series The Warriors for the ABC.

 She also produced the 9-minute stop motion animated film Lost Property Office with cardboard sculptor Daniel Agdag. The short won Best Short Animation and Best Director at the 2017 Sydney Film and Best Short Animation at the 2018 AACTAs and was shortlisted for an Academy Award in 2018.

Most recently Liz produced Robert Connolly’s feature film Blueback which premiered at TIFF and screened at Sundance and Jub Clerc’s debut feature Sweet As which screened at TIFF, winning the NETPAC Award and Berlin where it won the Golden Bear in the Generation Kplus section.

Liz is currently in post-production on the stop motion animated feature film Memoir of a Snail by Academy Award winning writer/ director Adam Elliot.