Victoria Raiser is an entrepreneur and filmmaker who has been focusing
on creative industries since the beginning of her career. Raiser
acquired an extensive design, visual arts, marketing and brand building
background before co-founding a successful fashion start up. As CEO she
grew the company into an international business with stores in Europe
and the US.
Raiser transitioned into the film industry in 2003 where she leveraged
her experience in fund raising and starting and executing creative
projects from scratch, while supporting the creative process at hand.
In 2007 she founded her own production company Liria Films. To date she
has written, directed and produced 4 independent feature films and is
the co-creator of a video game to be released in 2014. In addition
Raiser is a freelance consultant to several Silicon Valley tech
companies on targeted content creation and distribution.
In 2013 Raiser joined the board of the San Francisco Film Society and
now actively supports the San Francisco International Film Festival,
Filmmaker 360 (a grant program to SF filmmakers - recent success
stories are "Beasts of the Southern Wild", "Fruitvale Station" and
"Short Term 12"), and SFFS' educational media outreach to over 10,000
bay area students.