SELECT WORKS
February 2026
A selection of portfolio highlights. Please contact to discuss further, thank you for visiting!
THE BANCHET AWARDS
The Banchet Awards is a celebration of culinary excellence in Chicago, gathering more than 400 of Chicagoland’s foremost chefs, culinary professionals, and industry insiders. It is the sole Chicago-based awards ceremony honoring originality and talent across the region.
2026 Jean Banchet Award for Culinary Excellence: Grant Achatz
Produced, directed and edited by Liz Sung Productions, LLC for The Banchet Awards.
​Grant Achatz is the creative director and co-owner of The Alinea Group. Chef Achatz stands among the world’s most celebrated and influential chefs, renowned for his innovative, emotional, and modernist cuisine.
CENTER ON HALSTED
The Midwest's largest LGBTQ+ community center. Liz Sung Productions has produced numerous videos for the Human First Gala from 2016 to 2024. Honorees and awardees range from community organizers, artists, and activists to banks, corporations and health providers.
2021 Human First Honoree: Sam Kirk
Produced, directed and edited by Liz Sung Productions, LLC for Center on Halsted's 2021 Human First Un*Gala.
Sam Kirk is a Chicago-based multidisciplinary artist whose work lives at the intersection of culture and identity - navigating stories of becoming - how identity is shaped through lived experience, memory, and the relationships we hold with one another. Working across fine art, public space, and narrative formats, Kirk creates layered visual environments that invite reflection, recognition, and connection.
2021 Human First Honoree: Theaster Gates
Produced, directed and edited by Liz Sung Productions, LLC for Center on Halsted's 2021 Human First Un*Gala.
Theaster Gates is an artist whose practice finds roots in conceptual formalism, sculpture, space theory, land art, and performance.
Founded by artist Theaster Gates in 2010, Rebuild Foundation is a platform for art, cultural development, and neighborhood transformation.
To Life! To Deli! Chicagoland Jewish Delis
Produced, directed and edited by Liz Sung Productions, LLC for Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center's "'I’ll Have What She’s Having': The Jewish Deli" exhibition on display from October 22, 2023 - April 14, 2024. The exhibition was organized and circulated by the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California. This short film was produced to help localize this traveling exhibition, and was featured on a large screen next to the entrance of the exhibit.
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY (UMMNH)
RESEARCH STATIONS are compact temporary exhibits that offer a window into the research of University of Michigan scientists. They are dispersed through the building, and the research topics align with the subject of the gallery they are in. The videos are also made available to the public after in-person display in a virtual format online. Below are a few samples of this series 6 years in the running.​
Research Station: Data-Packed Bird Backpacks
Produced, directed, edited and written by Liz Sung Productions, LLC for University of Michigan Museum of Natural History.
U-M Associate Professor Ben Winger and his team want to know more about migratory routes and how they affect birds’ life cycles, ecology, and evolution. They use tiny geolocation backpacks to track where birds go over the course of a year, then download the data when the bird returns to the original location the next summer. Studying individual birds’ migrations helps them understand where species are found at different times of year, which is important for improving their conservation. Full virtual series can be viewed here.
In the field, researchers must catch birds before they can collect data. Matt Hack, PhD candidate in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of Michigan, leads the field team at the University of Michigan Biological Station.
Using standard techniques in ornithology that are safe for the birds, the deployment process includes tagging the bird, recording the data, attaching the geolocator device, releasing the bird and hopefully, finding it again next year.
Research Station: The smallest titan
Produced, directed, edited and written by Liz Sung Productions, LLC for University of Michigan Museum of Natural History.
Jeff Wilson Mantilla, PhD, is Professor of Earth and Environmental Science, and Curator in the Museum of Paleontology at University of Michigan. This series looks at his new discovery of a dwarf sauropod dinosaur. Full virtual series can be viewed here.
Meet Jeff Wilson Mantilla.
Sauropods are characterized by pneumatic bones, or bones with air-filled pockets. This allows for their large body size.
Research Station: Wasp facial recognition
Produced, directed, edited and written by Liz Sung Productions, LLC for University of Michigan Museum of Natural History.
Elizabeth Tibbetts, PhD, is Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of Michigan. Full virtual series can be viewed here.
Meet Elizabeth Tibbetts
Dr. Tibbetts studies paper wasps. She is particularly interested in how individual wasps make decisions, such as whether to cooperate or compete with others.
The Power of Collections
Produced, directed and edited by Liz Sung Productions, LLC for University of Michigan Museum of Natural History.
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The film was produced to accommodate the unique dimensions of the theater screen, hence the panoramic presentation of the video.
50 Years of Muntu Dance Theatre
Produced, directed and edited by Liz Sung Productions, LLC for Muntu Dance Theatre, 2022.