Lilibet Foster

Lilibet Foster
Born	1965 Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands

Lilibet Foster is an American director, producer and writer. Her non-fiction films have won the Independent Spirit: Truer Than Fiction Award and been Nominated for Best Film of the Year by the International Documentary Association.

Foster graduated from Kent School in Kent, Connecticut in 1982 and Duke University.

Lilibet Foster was Nominated for an Oscar for producing the feature documentary Speaking in Strings at the 72nd Academy Awards. She also produced the feature documentary, Soul in the Hole that won the Independent Spirit: Truer Than Fiction Award (tied with Errol Morris' Fast, Cheap and Out of Control) and was Nominated for the IDA Award.

Speaking in Strings also premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival and won The Newport Film Festival Jury Prize and Best Documentary at Paramount Studio's WIN Film Festival, and after its theatrical release, an Ace Award when it was later shown on HBO. Soul in the Hole was also named Top Ten Gem by Premiere Magazine, twice-named Top Ten Film and called "...the best film about growing up black, male and street..." by the Village Voice. It was selected in competition and screened at the Rotterdam, Munich, Cologne Helsinki, Festival des Femmes, New Zealand, Berlin and other international film festivals. In addition to the US, internationally it received theatrical and television releases the France, Germany, UK and other countries. She also directed and produced the feature documentary, Brotherhood: Life in the FDNY that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival to critical acclaim before being released internationally (Hart Sharp) and internationally. She is now directing and producing the feature documentary, Be Here Now (The Andy Whitfield Story) which won the Los Angeles Film Festival Jury Award for Best Documentary to be theatrically released after its completion. She raised funding through what became the third most successful documentary campaign on Kickstarter.

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