Ms. Westrate is also the producer and director of PASSING ON THE GIFT: HEIFER INTERNATIONAL’S MISSION TO END HUNGER. This film celebrates the 60th anniversary of the innovative humanitarian organization, Heifer International, which provides food and income-producing animals and training to millions of resource-poor families in 115 countries. For this project, Westrate filmed in Tanzania, Cambodia, Ecuador, Romania and the Navajo Nations in 2004. The project was a collaboration with director Emma Wilson and was completed in 2005. PASSING ON THE GIFT screened at the United Nations in 2005, and footage from the film was included in the Sarah McLachlan video World on Fire. The DVD is currently being distributed for free to over 350,000 World Ark magazine subscribers and through public schools, libraries and churches internationally.

Westrate recently traveled to Park City, Utah and produced segments for for the Sundance Channel series Festival Dailies. These pieces included stories about festival founder Robert Redford; Lebanese filmmaker Ziad Doueiri and his controversial dramatic feature LILA SAYS and Andrew Wagner, director of the uproarious family road trip film, THE TALENT GIVEN US. All three stories were produced and broadcast during the week of the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. In 2004, Westrate followed experimental filmmaker Jake Mahaffy and his debut film WAR, for the program Right Now! At the Sundance Film Festival. Other Sundance Channel projects include a piece that explores the Alternative Art Movement in New York in the 1980s for the series Aftereffect, as well as a portrait of child prodigy filmmaker Chaille Stoval for the series 24 Frame News.

Ms. Westrate was the Associate Producer of the THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES starring Eve Ensler for HBO, which John Leonard in his New York Magazine review described as "not to be missed under any circumstances". The program aired on February 14, 2002 in conjunction with V-Day, a global movement to end violence against girls and women.

She was also the Associate Producer of OUR HOUSE: A VERY REAL DOCUMENTARY ABOUT KIDS OF GAY AND LESBIAN PARENTS. This ITVS production, directed by Meema Spadola, was broadcast on public television in June, 2000 and won the "Best Documentary" award at both the New York and Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festivals.

Ms. Westrate was the Associate Producer for the Simon & Goodman Picture Company from 1996 to 1999. While there, she received a Cable Ace Award for "Best Documentary Special" for her work on HEART OF A CHILD, an HBO documentary which follows the emotional story of a child in need of a heart and lung transplant. The following year, 27TH AND PROSPECT: ONE YEAR IN THE FIGHT AGAINST DRUGS, was broadcast as part of HBO's "Faces of Addiction" series. For this portrait of an inner city neighborhood's struggle to combat the perils of substance abuse, Ms. Westrate was nominated for another Cable Ace Award in the category of "Best Public Affairs Special or Series."

Elizabeth Westrate was also the Associate Producer of THE TELEPHONE, an hour-long American Experience special for public television, and SABA: THE LIFE OF TED ARISON, a privately funded biography of an international philanthropist which required extensive location production in Europe, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and the United States.

Performing arts projects include THE PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY REPERTORY PRESERVATION PROJECT for which Ms. Westrate was both Associate Producer and Editor. This five-year project was funded by the National Endowment for the Arts in order to record and archive 28 major works by choreographer Paul Taylor as performed by his dance company. Ms. Westrate also helped produce Simon & Goodman's short film for the NEW WORLD SYMPHONY that celebrated the first ten years of the orchestra's existence. It was premiered at the Symphony's 10th anniversary gala at Lincoln Center in 1998. In 1996, Ms. Westrate worked closely with choreographer Bill T. Jones and video artist Gretchen Bender as both Script Supervisor and Post Production Coordinator on STILL/HERE, a KTCA/Alive TV production of the award winning modern dance piece by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company.

Previously, Elizabeth Westrate worked as the Post Production Coordinator on BUCKMINSTER FULLER: THINKING OUT LOUD. This Simon & Goodman production aired on the P.B.S. American Masters Series and was awarded the DuPont-Columbia Silver Baton Award for Independent Programming. It was also nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Cultural/Informational Program. Elizabeth Westrate has served in various production positions on many feature films including INDEPENDENCE DAY, THE BASKETBALL DIARIES, and JEFFREY, and has coordinated several commercials and industrial films. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Film & Television Production from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University in 1992.