# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/liz-garbus
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:59:40.468Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/liz-garbus"
name: "Liz Garbus"
slug: "liz-garbus"
description: "Elizabeth Freya Garbus is an American documentary film director and producer. Notable documentaries Garbus has made are The Farm: Angola, USA, Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, Bobby Fischer Against the World, Love, Marilyn, What Happened, Miss Simone?, and Becoming Cousteau. She is co-founder and co-director of the New York City-based documentary film production company Story Syndicate."
tagline: "American film director and producer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Liz_Garbus_at_the_2026_Sundance_Film_Festival_03_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1970-04-11"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.458607095926413
  historical:           10.59108266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "lizgarbus"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0305017/"
    handle:    "nm0305017"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "ليز جاربوس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Liz Garbus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Liz Garbus"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3257306"
    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump