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Jalena Keane-Lee


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Headshot photograph of Jalena Keane-Lee, whose hands are clasped beneath her chin, and is photographed in front of a dusky pink backdrop.

Jalena Keane-Lee (Director, Cinematographer, Producer) is a filmmaker who explores intergenerational healing through narrative change. She is a recipient of the Gotham Documentary Fellowship, Creative Culture woman filmmaker fellowship, Wyncote Fellowship and NeXt Doc Fellowship. She has won Tribeca Through Her Lens 2020 and DocPitch 2022. Her short films have played at over 50 film festivals, winning best short at LA Asian Film Festival in 2020 and the Jury Award at Sundance in 2023. Jalena co-founded Breaktide Productions, an all women of color production company that has won two Cannes Lion awards for branded content. She is currently working on her first feature documentary which participated in the 2022 Sundance Edit and Story Lab.

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Join the International Documentary Association and Film Independent on Monday, July 10, for the DocuClub work-in-progress screening of the film Standing Above the Clouds. We will be joined by filmmakers Erin Lau, Jalena Keane-Lee, and Amber Espinosa-Jones for an audience feedback session moderated by Lindy Leong.

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