2025Nominee
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Lee Anne Schmitt
Director · Producer · Writer
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Biography
I am a writer and director of both film and performance events, working in film, writing, photography, and performance to create work that elevates the everyday elements of American life towards the level of cultural ritual. I have set out to explore the juncture between fiction and documentary that defines the ‘essay film’. All of my work begins with landscape, the experience of living in a particular place at a particular time, the phenomena of time and space, and the space between the ideology and the reality of the spaces we live within.
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Representative Works
Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
2000Winner
Best Director
Las Vegas
2002Winner
Best Director
Nightingale
Career Highlights
2026Highlight
Best Writing
Adulthood
2009Highlight
Career Highlight
My White Baby
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