Anne Lewis, Independent Documentary Filmmaker
Anne Lewis is an independent documentary maker associated with Appalshop, an arts and education center in the Appalachian coalfields described by Pat Aufterheide as “an unsentimental exercise in authenticity.” Anne is a senior lecturer at the University of Texas Austin, Department of Radio Television and Film. Her work focuses on working class people’s efforts to make social change and to preserve community culture. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York, she was an assistant to Paul Falkenburg (editor of Fritz Lang’s M) and Marcel Ophuls (director of The Sorrow and the Pity). Anne was associate director/assistant camerawoman for Harlan County, U.S.A.. After the strike, she moved to the coalfields where she directed Appalshop’s Headwaters: Stories about Rural Life and Mountain Culture, which aired on PBS stations nationally. Her films include: Fast Food Women (Judges’ Choice London Film Festival), Justice in the Coalfields (Gold Plaque INTERCOM), Belinda (CINE Golden Eagle), and On Our Own Land (duPont-Columbia Award). Anne has recently finished the feature documentary, Morristown, which looks at immigration and the loss of U.S. Factory jobs as two sides of globalization.
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Anne Lewis and The Center for Social Media
Anne Lewis in In Motion Magazine
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