Biography

Mira Lippold-Johnson is a filmmaker whose work explores themes of justice and identity. Her narrative short films BAD THINGS and THE LETTER E did the indie film festival circuit and won awards at Bend Film, Sidewalk Film Festival, Women Texas Film Festival, Deep in the Heart Film Festival, and Austin Revolution Film Festival. She is currently in production on a documentary project about LGBTQIA+ activism in the state of Florida.

Until 2023, Mira was an assistant professor of practice at the University of Texas, moving to Los Angeles in 2019 to oversee the satellite campus and “Semester in LA” program as the Program Director. In that role, she built connections with the industry, implemented mentorship programs, and taught students professional skills and industry knowledge, supporting them through the upheaval of both COVID and the WGA and SAG strikes. 

Mira currently works as an editor on both documentary and narrative films. She came up in the film world as an assistant editor, working on multiple Ross McElwee projects and on documentaries that premiered at SXSW and Tribeca. She was also the Supervisor of Digital Media at the Smithsonian Channel, where she oversaw the development of an iPad app that was nominated for both a SXSW Interactive award and a Webby. 

She holds an MFA in Film Production from the University of Texas at Austin and a BA in Linguistics from Harvard.