Director
Lee Anne Schmitt
Cleveland, Ohio, USA · 9 films
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 for
Filmography 9
Adulthood
2026 · Writer
Evidence
2025 · Director, Screenplay
The Farnsworth Scores
2018 · Director
Purge This Land
2017 · Producer, Director
On DocAlliance Films
The Last Buffalo Hunt
2011 · Director
On DocAlliance Films
California Company Town
2008 · Director
On DocAlliance Films
Awake and Sing
2003 · Director
Nightingale
2002 · Director
Las Vegas
2000 · Director