Elizabeth Schub-Kamir

Elizabeth Schub-Kamir

Senior Lecturer

  • Department: Communication, Media and Culture

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Professor Schub Kamir is an Emmy® nominated filmmaker and screenwriter. Originally from New York, she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography and a Bachelor of Arts in History of Art from Cornell University and a master’s degree in film and television from New York University Tisch School of the Arts. She joined AUP in 2022 after having taught screenwriting at universities worldwide, including L'Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión in Cuba. She was the director and lead mentor at the Cannes Series Institute, Talents / Unlimited; a Vivendi / Canal+ series writing and development program in Cannes, France from 2019-2022.

Today, she works predominantly writing scripts for animated children’s TV. Before joining Mikros Animation as a writer and story editor on Magicampers for The Walt Disney Company (Disney+ coming in 2024), Elizabeth’s recent writing credits include Totally Spies (2023 Banijay Kids & Family/ Zodiak), Petronix Defenders (2022 Gulli/ M6/ Method Animation/ Mediawan Kids & Family). She is also developing children’s series; both original concepts and projects based on existing IP. Elizabeth still maintains ties to the film world; recent credits include writing “The Wild One” (2023 / ARTE); a feature-length, theatrically released film (voiced by Willem Dafoe), César eligible, 2024.

As a writer-director, Schub Kamir's fiction and nonfiction films have screened at worldwide festivals including The Sundance Film Festival, and she has won numerous awards, including Best Short Film at The Berlin Film Festival, and have been broadcast on PBS, Canal + and Channel 4.



Education/Degrees

  • MFA in Film, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, 1995
  • BFA in Photography, Cornell University, 1990
  • BA in History of Art, Cornell University, 1990