Elizabeth Coffman

Elizabeth Coffman is a documentary filmmaker and film scholar. She's published work in Camera Obscura, Journal of Film & Video and other places. Her film work has been broadcast and screened at festivals in Europe and the U.S. Elizabeth maintains messy homes in Chicago and in Tampa, where her two children live with their father during the week, and stay with her on the weekends. Elizabeth and her filmmaking partner have a media production company -- Long Distance Productions.

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Most Recent Articles

April 25, 2017
Career Concerns and the Arts
Graduating with a degree in creative writing or the arts?  
March 22, 2017
What Are We Fighting For?
Hiding out in Chicago.  
March 1, 2017
Unions, Tenure and Job Anxiety
Anxiety leads to protest movements.
February 7, 2017
Anxiety, the Media and a New Feminist Revolution
Signing up for the battles.
January 25, 2017
Welcome to Your First Day
The Women's March, and beyond.
January 18, 2017
Heading to the Women's March
Film and protest.
May 22, 2013
Long Distance Mom: Into the Darkness
A family review.
May 8, 2013
Long Distance Mom: Choosing a College
A daughter's difficult choice.
April 24, 2013
Long Distance Mom: Dove's Real Beauty Campaign
On ads, their parodies, and their meanings....
April 10, 2013
Long Distance Mom: Obituaries
The film world was busy this week mourning the loss of two “mountains”—documentary filmmaker Les Blank and film critic Roger Ebert.  They will both be remembered for highlighting work about women, blacks, Cajuns, “crackers,” Mexicans, Yugoslavs—subjects and filmmakers who are too often ignored and forgotten by mainstream media.   Both men have inspired me in my own filmmaking and teaching.

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