Lisa Marie Evans, an award-winning filmmaker, received the Publishing Triangle’s Michele Karlsberg Leadership Award for her documentary “In Her Words: 20th Century Lesbian Fiction,” which has screened in 16 countries. In 2024, she received a grant from the US Embassy in Rome to screen her film at Sapienza University to advance LGBTQI+ policies. Evans was a keynote speaker at VIII Gendercom in Viterbo, Italy. She debuted an animation to accompany a bassoon performance by Lia Uribe of Fernando Fernández’s Enredadas Alegrías at the 2023 International Double Reed Society conference in Bangkok, Thailand. She received a 2024 Artists 360 award and an Arkansas Arts Council Fellowship in Cinematic Arts in 2021. Evans co-produced “Beyond Belief” for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS.