Co-FounderCatapult Film Fund
Lisa Kleiner Chanoff is co-founder of Catapult Film Fund, a nonprofit organization that provides early-stage funding to help important, moving, and artful documentary films to get off the ground. Earlier in her career, she practiced law in San Francisco and with the Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. She later received a MA in Museum Studies and worked with museums in the San Francisco Bay Area. She gravitated toward documentary film to combine her interests in policy and creative visual storytelling. Lisa has executive produced numerous documentaries including Art & Craft, When God Sleeps and the Academy Award-nominated shorts Extremis and Life Overtakes Me, as well as narrative films including Burn Country, Fruitvale Station (Co-EP), Loves & Taxes, and The Outside Story. She is president of the board of Catapult Film Fund and serves on the boards of SFFILM and the photojournalism nonprofit Catchlight. Lisa is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.