ABOUT

 

 

Elizabeth Margaret Baudouin (Bode-win) is a writer, producer, and director.

Born in Providence, Rhode Island, she began her career in music as the Music Director and On-Air host of 88.9FM WERS, while studying Media + PR/Marketing/Advertising at Emerson College. At night, when she wasn’t hosting curated shows at The Middle East and House of Blues, she was outside all the local music venues promoting new music releases as the Boston street team rep for indie and major record labels.

After graduation, in the early aughts, she co-founded a New York City-based independent record label. This time was arguably the most exciting time to be part of the NYC music scene which boasted indie darlings The Strokes, Interpol, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Most of her nights were spent at shows at Piano’s, Mercury Lounge, Bowery Ballroom, Irving Plaza, and The Living Room. A highlight moment during this time was living in Nashville for three months while recording at the famed and storied Ocean Way Nashville Studios.

Three years later, she moved to Los Angeles chasing an ideal to work at the music management company of her dreams which ultimately turned out not to be the dream scene she had hoped for. Nonetheless, she stayed in music with an early career that produced across all key fundamental elements of the industry including artist management, promotions, venue booking, show production, marketing, and music supervision. She has worked alongside countless bands across all levels of their career and with labels and companies like Warner Bros, Nettwerk, Dangerbird, Virgin, V2, Palm Pictures, Island/Def Jam, Capitol, Epic, Whirly Girl, Atlantic, Vapor, EMI, Universal, J Records, Astralwerks, Machine Shop and more.

Then, she was offered a change and joined the high-energy, alternative Hollywood agency, A.D.D. Marketing + Advertising, a company buzzing with the energetic passion of music industry ex-pats. This position allowed her to extend her work into building award-winning creative, experiential + alternative marketing campaigns for major companies and brands in film, culture, entertainment, consumer, art, CPG, beverage, and apparel. This includes HBO, Showtime, Paramount Pictures, MTV, MTV Films, FOX Searchlight, Crackle, Warner Bros, Nike, Fiji Water, Toyota, and SONY PlayStation.

Simultaneously, she was the music editor, and journalist and worked sponsor/partner acquisitions for The Work Magazine, a Los Angeles-based, queer-led, independent arts and culture magazine that was distributed around the world. It was here, in 2010, that her writing was first published.

Elizabeth is a published writer. Her work captures the human experience with complexity, humor, depth, and cultural totems. Her personal essays have been published in Vogue, The Work Magazine, Atelier Doré , and Huffington Post. Elizabeth's music, art, and culture journalism has been published in The Coveteur, The Work Magazine, FvF, Bullett Magazine, Coachella's CAMP Magazine, and BlackBook Magazine.  She has interviewed over 200+ artists including Willie Nelson, Active Child, Nosaj Thing, Small Black, Tegan & Sara, and M83. While she was the Music Editor at THE WORK MAGAZINE, she covered indie staples like Wye Oak, Twin Shadow, Glasser, Chelsea Wolfe, Blonde Redhead, Holy Other and many more.

In 2015, she joined her wife’s company as the co-owner of NES Creative, an acclaimed agency known for championing talent, brands + institutions in culture, art, style and design. Together they were featured in NY Times: T Magazine, Architectural Digest, The Coveteur, Matches Fashion, InStyle’s Badass Women Issue, Flanelle Magazine, Domino Magazine, Elle Korea and more.

IN FILM, she is an Executive Producer, Producer and Music Supervisor for Director, Natalie Shirinian's multiple award-winning 2019 documentary film Interior Motives. The film was featured in The Hollywood Reporter, AnOther, Architectural Digest, Flaunt, and many more. Interior Motives was an official selection for Frieze LA x Neuehouse and is streaming on Film Shortage and Docs Now.

Elizabeth is also an Executive Producer, Producer, Music Supervisor, and co-star of Shirinian’s multiple award-winning short film, Hello Mother (Parev Mama) which they filmed during the 2020 pandemic. Hello Mother (Parev Mama) has won numerous "Best Short Film" and "Audience Awards" across the 2021/2022 film festival circuit and was recently a part of the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences presented New Filmmakers LA. Nowness, THEM, Vogue, and Moviemaker Magazine have featured the film. Hello Mother also breaks ground as the first-ever film to put an Armenian lesbian lead on-screen. The short film is available to stream on iTunes and as part of OutFest’s OUTMUSEUM.

In June 2023, Elizabeth premiered her short film, Breakup Text, the first film that she wrote and directed at the Academy Award Qualifying, 25th Provincetown International Film Festival with the West Coast premiere at the Academy Award and BAFTA Qualifying, LA Shorts International Film Festival and the New York premiere at the Academy Award Qualifying 24th Woodstock Film Festival. The trailer premiered on Nowness, as part of their NOWNESS Picks and NOWNESS Pride series. In June 2024, Breakup Text won the HollyShorts Audience Award.

MovieMaker Magazine calls Breakup Text “a heart-wrenching directorial debut,” Surface Magazine writes “Gripping...Breakup Text prompts viewers to consider that heartbreak, particularly of the queer kind, might be not only an emotional but an audio-visual experience," and @godimsuchadyke reviews “[Breakup Text] is a raw and honest look at the grief we experience when we lose a person we love…it is as visually arresting as it is emotionally affecting in a space where our stories are rarely treated with this level of stunning nuance and thoughtfulness.”

Together, Elizabeth and Natalie founded Not All Films, a production company through which they’ve produced multiple award-winning short films. Most recently they produced the short documentary film ALOK, featuring Alok Vaid-Menon, directed by Alex Hedison, and executive produced by Academy Award winner Jodie Foster. ALOK. The film will premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival and won Best Short Documentary at the 2024 Sarasota Film Festival. It currently is on a world theatrical tour with the 2024 Sundance Shorts Film Tour.

She is currently in pre-production on her next short film, Julie Happy Birthday in which she co-writes and co-directs with Natalie Shirinian. She is also in pre-production on Shirinian’s debut feature film, Ponchik in which she will produce.

Elizabeth and her wife are committed to LGBTQIA+ visibility and have been featured together as a couple in national campaigns including David Yurman’s 2016 Valentine’s Day Campaign, Atelier Dore’s 2019 Pride Campaign, Maude’s 2020 Pride Maudern People Series, Costa Brazil Social Campaign, fashion designer Alejandra Alonso Rojas’ women empowering “The Uplift Collection 2021,” Vogue feature and a 2024 Vogue Living Feature.

Her community work runs through Los Angeles and New York having co-created the disaster relief grassroots organization LA Hearts NY and co-organizing immediate on-the-ground efforts to collect PPE for our covid frontline health workers at Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles.

Elizabeth is an Emerson College graduate and has studied with Joan Scheckel's Filmmaking Lab Studios.