LisaY. Garibay was born and raised in El Paso, attended Amherst Collegein Massachusetts, and worked in the entertainment industry for morethan 15 years in Los Angeles. Garibay has produced award-winningmovies including RobbingPeter,which premiered at the 2004 Los Angeles Film Festival and wasnominated for four Independent Spirit Awards; the groundbreakinggraffiti documentary BombItby acclaimed experimental filmmaker Jon Reiss; and Anayansi Prado'sChildrenin No Man's Land,tackling the issue of undocumented children crossing the U.S.-Mexicoborder alone.
Asa music supervisor, Garibay secured the first-ever original filmscore by legendary rocker Alejandro Escovedo for RobbingPeterand amassed a collection of seminal rock-en-Español artists for thesoundtrack to EastSide Story.As a screenwriter, Garibay's feature script AllFor Onewas selected to participate in the first-ever NALIP/New York LatinoFilm Festival Latino Writers Lab, where it secured representation bymajor talent agency International Creative Management (ICM).Garibay's film career began at Woods Entertainment under producersCary Woods and Cathy Konrad (Kids,CopLandand Scream).She then served as production assistant with Jim Brooks' Gracie Filmsfor BottleRocketand JerryMaguire.
Garibayworked with Film Independent (FIND) for more than a decade,overseeing corporate marketing, fundraising, programming andpublicity for the organization's year-round activities as well asits two high-profile annual events, the Los Angeles Film Festival andthe Independent Spirit Awards. Garibay also managed FilmIndependent's Project:Involve minority mentorship program toincrease diversity within the film industry.
In2002, Garibay created LARGetc. to provide effective grassrootsmarketing, publicity and creative business strategy for independentartists, companies and nonprofits spanning the globe. In 2008,Garibay launched the LARGep division of her company in El Paso, Texasto help artists, entrepreneurs and nonprofits within the world'slargest border community achieve their full potential.
LARGetc.clients have included 20thCentury Fox, the American Music Awards, Grammy® nominated rockmusician Joshua Bradford, Columbia Pictures, Gagen MacDonald, specialeffects whiz Aaron Sims (GreenLantern,Warof the Worlds),and Warner Bros. Studios. LARGep clients have ranged from the CenterAgainst Family Violence, Cinco Puntos Press, the El Paso BarAssociation, El Paso Opera, Plaza Classic Film Festival, and the RioGrande Cancer Foundation to venture capitalists Cottonwood TechnologyFund, the City of El Paso Downtown Revitalization Plan and privateequity management firm PDN Capital.
Garibay'snonprofit experience includes convention and tourism coordinationwith the El Paso Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and marketingmanagement for NATPE (National Association of Television ProgramExecutives), overseeing online and print communications for theindustry's largest nonprofit association of TV industry pros.
In2004, Garibay partnered with noted film consultant Peter Broderick tocreate Films To See Before You Vote, using films as tools to inform,inspire and organize voters and pioneering new means of utilizing theInternet for crowdsourcing towards greater funding, distribution andactivism opportunities. She is the founder of CineMás, a nonprofitinitiative linking film with education and community developmentamong Latino populations, and co-founder of The Impacto Project,which teaches indigenous youth to use photography and video forcultural preservation and economic growth. She serves as managingeditor of El Paso Entrepreneur Network, cultivating funding &connectivity opportunities for emerging businesses in theever-growing border region.
Garibayis also a journalist who writes for BackStage,Dazed& Confused,FilmmakerMagazine,TheSan Francisco Bay Guardian andmany others. Her nonfiction was published in the literary anthologyNewWorld: Young Latino Writers.She is the founder of ThenItMustBeTrue.com, an alternative outlet forartists and journalists to have intelligent discussions about theirwork, including filmmakers Pedro Almódovar, Michel Gondry, WalterSalles and Lars von Trier as well as musicians Gustavo Santaolalla,Phil Selway (Radiohead), Peter Murphy, Dave Navarro, and many others.For this work, she was awarded an Arts Writing Fellowship from theSundance Institute.
Garibaysplits her time between Los Angeles and El Paso, where TheEl Paso Timesnamed Garibay a "Leader of Tomorrow" in 2010. In El Paso, sheserves on the Board of Directors for the El Paso Collaborative forCommunity & Economic Development and the Rubin Center for theVisual Arts. She proudly owes her vocation to a healthy obsessionwith The Beatles and AHard Day's Night.