Biography
Liza Johnson (born December 13, 1970) is an American film director, producer, and writer. Along with her collection of short films, Johnson has directed four feature films, including Return (2011), Hateship, Loveship (2013), and Elvis & Nixon (2016).
Known For
Complete Filmography
Saving Bikini Bottom: The Sandy Cheeks Movie
2024
Director
When Bikini Bottom is scooped from the ocean, scientific squirrel Sandy Cheeks and her pal SpongeBob SquarePants saddle up for Texas to save their tow...
Elvis & Nixon
2016
Director
In 1970, a few days before Christmas, Elvis Presley showed up on the White House lawn seeking to be deputized into the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangero...
When the Dogs Talked
2014
Co-Producer
As a group of Indigenous adults argue about whether to save their government housing or their sacred landscape, their children struggle to decide how ...
Hateship Loveship
2014
Director, Executive Producer
A shy caretaker believes that the father of her teenage charge is falling in love with her, unaware that she is actually the victim of the girl's pran...
Karrabing! Low Tide Turning
2012
Director
In the Northern Territory of Australia, an extended Aboriginal family attempts to track down a missing family member so as not to lose their governmen...
Return
2011
Writer, Director
Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.
In The Air
2009
Director, Producer
In Southeastern Ohio, April works in a scrap yard. Daphany waits for customers in a fast food window. Lee spends the day waiting for school to be over...
South of Ten
2006
Writer, Producer, Director
A girl flees a makeshift tent city. A man finds a trombone. A worker watches the ocean from under a moving house, while its owner gazes at the view fr...
The Stink of Flesh
2005
as Macko
Nathan and Dexy struggle to maintain an open marriage after a zombie plague has killed the majority of the population. It's up to Nathan to find survi...