
Lee Anne Schmitt
Known for
Directing
Birthplace
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.
Best known work
Filmography
2026
AdulthoodWriter
2025
EvidenceDirector, Screenplay, Cinematography, Editor
2020
Cry LoveDirector
2018
The Farnsworth ScoresDirector
2017
Purge This LandProducer, Director
2015
Williams LakeDirector
2015
womannightfilmDirector
2011
Three StoriesEditor, Director, Director of Photography
2011
The Last Buffalo HuntDirector
2010
Bowers CaveDirector
2009
My White BabyThanks
2009
The WashDirector of Photography, Director
2008
California Company TownDirector
2003
Awake and SingDirector
2002
NightingaleDirector
2000
Las VegasDirector








