---
name: "Liz Kearney"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/liz-kearney"
fi1m_id: "liz-kearney"
imdb_id: "nm2782306"
tmdb_id: 1323511
wikidata_id: "Q132529670"
roles: ["Producer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 76
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-30T22:43:23.960189+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Liz Kearney

## Identity

Liz Kearney

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/liz-kearney
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** liz-kearney
- **IMDb ID:** nm2782306
- **TMDB ID:** 1323511
- **Wikidata ID:** Q132529670
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q132529670, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2782306/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1323511

Producer.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Active:** 2024–present
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Average Fi1m score:** 76, as producer, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q132529670, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2782306/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1323511

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*Memoir of a Snail*](https://film.one/film/memoir-of-a-snail.md) (72)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Liz Kearney is an Australian film producer based in Melbourne. She began her career with short films, including *Jack in a Box* (2006) and Zak Hilditch’s *Transmission* (2012). Her first feature as producer was *These Final Hours* (2014), which screened in Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.

Kearney has produced *Paper Planes* (2014), *Acute Misfortune* (2018), *Blueback* (2022) and *Sweet As* (2022). She was executive producer on *1922* (2017) and produced the animated short *Lost Property Office* (2017), shortlisted for an Academy Award. She co-produced Adam Elliot’s stop-motion feature *Memoir of a Snail* (2024), for which she and Elliot received an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature.

*Sources: imdb.com, de.wikipedia.org, ausfilm.com.au.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Leviticus* (2026), Fi1m 80, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/leviticus.md)
- *Memoir of a Snail* (2024), Fi1m 72, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/memoir-of-a-snail.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Sweet Milk Lake* (2026), Executive Producer
- *Leviticus* (2026), Executive Producer — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/leviticus.md)
- *Pasa Faho* (2025), Executive Producer
- *Magic Beach* (2025), Producer
- *Memoir of a Snail* (2024), Producer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/memoir-of-a-snail.md)
- *Sweet As* (2023), Producer
- *Petrol* (2023), Executive Producer
- *Blueback* (2022), Producer
- *Acute Misfortune* (2018), Executive Producer
- *Ellipsis* (2018), Producer
- *1922* (2017), Executive Producer
- *Lost Property Office* (2017), Producer
- *The Warriors* (2017), series, Producer
- *Black as Me* (2017), Executive Producer
- *Spear* (2016), Executive Producer
- *Paper Planes* (2014), Producer
- *These Final Hours* (2014), Producer
- *The Turning* (2013), Producer
- *Transmission* (2012), Producer
- *Arrivals and Departures* (2009), Producer
- *Shiver*, Producer
- *Airborne*, Producer

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2025: Best Animated Feature (nominated), for *Memoir of a Snail*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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