Lisa Leeman

Lisa Leeman has been making award-winning documentary films for thirty-five years. Her cinematic portraits illuminate contemporary social issues through intimate character-driven stories, filmed over many years, as people navigate critical turning points. Leeman’s acclaimed films include Metamorphosis, One Lucky Elephant, Out of Faith, Who Needs Sleep, and Awake. She is a member of the Motion Picture Academy, a tenured Professor of Cinematic Arts and endowed chair at University of Southern California.

While at Bogliasco, Lisa Leeman will be writing and editing her documentary film Walk by Me, a portrait of a transgender artist’s life over thirty years, which is a follow-up to her groundbreaking first documentary, Metamorphosis (Sundance Filmmakers Trophy; POV/PBS, 1990). Filmed over nine years, Walk by Me weaves past and present to explore aging, art and resiliency, faith, friendship, and the blurred boundaries in documentary filmmaking.