The Biography

Elizabeth Purchell is a Brooklyn-based queer film historian, programmer, filmmaker, and the creator of Ask Any Buddy. She’s also the Print Traffic and Special Projects Manager at the American Genre Film Archive. Recently, she has appeared on over a dozen home video releases for various boutique labels and both programs and hosts the monthly Queer Cinema: Lost and Found screening series at Austin Film Society. Her work has been featured in publications such as Hyperallergic, The New Yorker, and The New York Times.