- Is a godmother of the feminist horror movement.
- Was so afraid of horror movies in her teens that she refused to restock the horror shelves at her video store job.
- Mentors include Katt Shea, Steve De Jarnatt, and Suzanne Lyons.
- The inspiration for the character "Kid Sis" in the Eisner and Harvey-winning graphic novel Mom's Cancer by her brother Brian Fies.
- Learned how to read on her cartoonist brother's Avengers comic books, and was later made by him into an Eisner-winning comic book character.
- Was the first female no-budget filmmaker invited to the Masters of Horror dinners.
- Elisabeth's undergraduate UCLA years included interning at Debra Hill Productions and doing stunts on The Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers.
- Her father owns the New Buffalo commune made famous in Easy Rider.
- Worked corporate video where she was the lead project programmer on a DVD series estimated to generate 500 million for the corporation.
- After earning her first masters degree from New School University in Media Studies, she returned to UCLA to study screen writing in their graduate program.
- Appeared nude in her feature directorial debut because she couldn't pay any other actresses enough to.
- Was a film major her freshman year at Pitzer College where she made a dozen super 8mm films, studied shamanism and Maya Deren.
- Has written hundreds of monologues for actors and published several books.
- Just missed being voted Most Unique in her high school's Hall of Fame, but joked it was more unique to be the second most unique.
- Won fame and scholarships in high school for her scathingly satirical astrology/love advice column.
- Hollywood, CA. Producing the anthologies "I Hate L.A." and "I Hate L.A. Too" featuring fresh shorts by genre underground superstars; and is in production on the gender reversal slasher "Psychosexual", a midnight movie breaking the kill record for the most full frontal male nudity. Her blockbuster screenplay "Pistoleras" remains unproduced. (March 2012)
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