Lisa Biagiotti (born August 20, 1979) is a filmmaker and journalist based in Los Angeles. She is the director and on-camera correspondent of On the Streets, a Los Angeles Times 12-part series and 72-minute feature documentary on homelessness in Southern California.^[1] She directed and produced deepsouth, an independent documentary about poverty, HIV/AIDS and LGBT issues in the rural American South.^[2] Biagiotti is a Fulbright Scholar and a graduate of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.^[3][4] She is of Italian descent from her father and Hakka Chinese Jamaican descent from her mother.^[5][6]

Biagiotti is an inaugural Fellow in the Sundance New Frontier Artist Residency program in partnership with The Social Computing Group at MIT Media Lab.^[7] She speaks publicly about digital journalism, and independently producing and self-distributing films.^[8][9]

For her independent documentary deepsouth, Biagiotti spent two-and-a-half years reporting, driving 13,000 miles and interviewing more than 400 people.^[10][11] She was invited across rural America on a 150-stop grassroots film tour, and was invited to discuss the domestic epidemic at The White House and Clinton Global Initiative.^[12] Biagiotti's work has been featured in The New Yorker,^[13] The Atlantic,^[14] Los Angeles Times,^[15] PBS,^[16] NPR,^[17] Oxford American,^[18] and The Lancet.^[19] She writes about her 5-year journey of making the film in her Director’s Statement titled Same Virus, Different Disease.^[20]

Biagiotti is the producer of The World’s Toilet Crisis, an hour-long documentary that aired on the Vanguard series of Current TV in 2010.^[21] She produced short video series for the nightly newscast Worldfocus on WNET on under-reported topics covering homophobia in the Caribbean and the humanitarian crisis in eastern Congo—the latter was awarded a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for International Television.^[22]

• deepsouth at IMDb
• lisabiagiotti at IMDb
• deepsouth official website
• Lisa Biagiotti website