Jalena Keane-Lee

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.