Elizabeth Yoffe
Elizabeth Yoffe is an independent media producer and the producing partner of award-winning filmmaker Tony Zierra. She produced the documentary Filmworker, about Stanley Kubrick’s longtime assistant Leon Vitali. Filmworker premiered at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival and went on to screen at many festivals worldwide, earning a 95% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
Yoffe also produced My Big Break, a candid look at the darker side of celebrity and its impact on rising Hollywood stars. The film won Best Documentary at the Boston Film Festival and Artsfest (Pennsylvania), was nominated at Raindance in London, and was an Official Selection of The American Cinematic Experience Festival. She produced USA The Movie, a film blending reality and fiction to explore cycles of violence after September 11, which drew academic analysis. She co-produced Carving Out Our Name, which was an Official Selection at the Toronto International Film Festival, and produced Brightness, an Independent Film Channel favorite starring Eric Idle, Chad Lindberg, and Fay Masterson.
Yoffe is a producer on the 2024 documentary SK13: Kubrick’s Endgame, directed by Tony Zierra, which premiered in New York in July 2025. She holds a B.A. in Theater Arts from Bennington College and an M.A. in Education from Antioch University, Seattle. Her early work includes regional casting on projects such as Waiting For The Light, Dogfight, and David Lynch’s Twin Peaks. In Los Angeles, she served as president of Cinewomen L.A., a nonprofit supporting women in film. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times and Slate.
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