Luiza Parvu is a filmmaker, visual artist, and educator based in Tempe, AZ. She is a member of the European Film Academy. She holds an MFA in Film Production from New York University - Tisch School of The Arts, New York, USA. She is an experienced media maker with professional working knowledge of all areas of production and post-production. Her directing and editing work covers a variety of genres, in both fiction and creative non-fiction: documentary, multimedia installation, and immersive media.
Luiza's art and research explore identity, memory, intersection and transformation. Her collaborations with scientists, ethnographers, filmmakers and mixed media artists cross space, time and themes - from connecting contemporary and historical stories of labor migration (Start Anew World; Seven Scenes from a Neighborhood Cafe; Ubi Bene Ibi Patria) to questioning the nature of images that shape the anthropocenic everyday (Sisyphus 2.0; Redemption Room) and observing human and non-human ecosystems facing environmental precarity (Migrant Water; Arabidopsis thaliana, The Salt In Our Waters).
The award winning films she has directed or edited so far have been recognized in film festivals and events worldwide such as Karlovy Vary, Sundance, BFI London, Busan, Transilvania, Tribeca or Abu Dhabi.
Luiza Parvu is currently an Assistant Professor of Film Directing in the Sidney Poitier New American Film School at Arizona State University, where she teaches coursework in film production and aesthetics. She has also taught media production, aesthetics, and documentary film in the Department of Critical Media Practices at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is a programmer for the Mimesis Documentary Festival, the co-editor of narrative feature film, The Salt in Our Waters (d. Rezwan Shahriar Sumit), distributed by Film Republic, and the editor, writer and co-producer of feature documentary, Flying Lessons (d. Elizabeth Nichols). The film premiered at True / False Film Festival in March 2024, followed by First Look Film Festival at the Museum of the Moving Image in NY.
