Lee Anne Schmitt
2658 Cunard Street, Los Angeles, CA 90065 USA tel/323 304 4588 email/lee_anne_schmitt@hotmail.com
Education
1999-2003 MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California. Department of Live Action in the School of Film/Video.
1989-1993 BS, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
Performance Studies Department, School of Speech
Teaching Experience
2004-present Permanent Faculty, Film Directing Program, California Institute of the Arts,
Valencia, California.
Position teaching graduate level film production and theory courses: including graduate seminars on Experiments in
Narrative and Performance Theory, the Narrative of History, and
Documentary/Fiction Hybrids. Responsible for teaching 16mm film production,
scripting and preproduction, narrative language, editing styles and dialectics, postproduction options, and facilitating the production of the graduate student films. Overseeing the MFA 3 thesis
workshop, and assisting on faculty review and curriculum.
2002-2005 Visiting Lecturer, Department of Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California.
Currently teaching production and theory at the Undergraduate level, including such courses as Media 100: Digital Editing, Introduction to Film, Advanced Film, Advanced Sound (Pro Tools), Media
Sketchbook, Studio Video, and Documentary Authenticity in Contemporary Media
2003-2004 Visiting Professor, Department of
Communications, Cal State San Marcos, San Marcos, California.
Currently teaching Undergraduates video production skills and relative analytic and theoretical tools.
Visiting Lecturer
Fall 2007 Guest Lecturer, Arizona State University, Prof. Marianne Kim
“New Media and Narrative Hybrid”
Winter 2006 Artist Exchange, 12-day residency at the Chinese Academy of Fine Art, Beijing
Filmography
Buffalo Hunt, to be released 2010, 85 minutes, 16mm and Video
Bowers Cave, 2009, 14 minutes, 16mm
California Company Town, 2008, 76 minutes, 16mm The Wash 2005, 20 minutes, super8
Awake and Sing 2003, 42 Minutes, 16mm Color Film Nightingale 2002,14 Minutes, 16mm Color Film Las Vegas 2000, 7 Minutes, Video
Screenings, selected California Company Town
Girl and a Gun Conference, Paris, Le Petit Cine, Brussels, Cinema Planeta, Cuernavaca, Cinematheque Quebecoise, Doc Kingdon, Serpa, SCMS Conference, Los Angeles, DocLisboa, Lisbon, Alternativa Film Festival, Barcelona, Ghent
International Film Festival. Ghent, Valdavia Film Festival, Santiago, Elles Tourent Women’s Film Festival, Brussels, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Durham, Punto de
Vista, Pamplona, Yukon International/Available Light, Yukon Territory, BAFICI, Buenos Aires, Ljubljana Film Festival, Ljubljana, Bradford Film Festival, Bradford, Jeonju Film Festival, Jeonju, San Francisco Film Festival, San
Francisco, PDX FEST, Portland, Munich International Film Festival, Munich, Doc’s Kingdon, Serpa, Seattle
International Film Festival, Seattle, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, Anthology Film Archive, New York, Jerusalem
International Film Festival, Jerusalem, Festival Itinerrance, Paris, FID Marseilles, International Documentary Film Festival of Marseilles, Documentary
Fortnight, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cinema du Reel, George Pompidou Center, Paris, Migrating Forms, New York, Athens International Film Festival, Athens, Ohio, Big Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale, Other Cinema, San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, Vancouver International Film Fesival, Vancouver, Rotterdam
International Film Festival, The Netherlands, CPHDox, Copenhagen International Festival of Documentary Film, Festival of American Independents, Berlin Germany, RedCat Theater, Los Angeles
Bowers Cave
FID Marseilles, International Documentary Film Festival of Marseilles, Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Ambulante Festival
The Wash
SF Moma, San Francisco, Neuse River Festival, North Carolina, Underdox Film Festival, Munich, International Documentary Film Festival of Marseilles, France, Rooftop Films, Brooklyn, New York, Athens International Film
Festival, Athens, Ohio, OVNI 2006, Barcelona, Spain, Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival, Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Netherlands, SFS:
Starting From Scratch, The Netherlands, Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Durham, North Carolina, Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver Nightingale
Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Moving Word Series; Los Angeles, California, Bologne International Film Festival: Bologne, Italy, Vienna International Film Festival: Vienna, Seattle Underground Film Festival: Seattle, Rotterdam Film Festival: The Netherlands, Big Muddy Film Festival: Carbondale, Illinois
Awake and Sing
Film and Theater Festival: Munsterberg, Germany, Athens’ International Film Festival, Athens, Ohio, Big Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale, Illinois, Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley, California, Shadow Festival of Documentary Film, The Netherlands, New York Expo of Short Films, New York, Vienna International Film Festival, Vienna,
Montreal Festival of New Media and Cinema, Montreal, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York
SF Moma, San Francisco, Vienna International Film Festival, Vienna
Performance and Installation
July 2006 “Making a Disaster: Part Two: Them Many Deaths of John Wayne”
Hedwig Performance Space
Making a disaster is a multimedia
performance that contemplates time and American history through a collaboration between butoh, sculpture, and film, based around a recreation of the structures built for the Apple II weapons effect testing. February 2006 “Reports from the Ghosttown”
Vaslasavay Panorama, Los Angeles,
collaboration with Jewlia Eisenberg and Jennifer Hofer
June 3-5, 2005 “Making a Disaster: Part One”
Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica June 5-7, 2004 “Fastidious Disorders”,
Crazy Space, 18th Street Art Complex, Santa Monica
1993-2000 Baubo Performance Project, Artistic Director Baubo Performance Project was a six woman cross-disciplinary performance collective. Interested in the junctures between the arts, Baubo created multimedia works
presented in a multitude of venues, ranging from the traditional theater space to the industrial landscape.
During its time, Baubo created over twenty critically acclaimed, widely followed events within Chicago and New York.
Reviews/Publications
Nathan Lee, “California Company Town”, New York Times, July 24, 2009
Scott Foundas, “Tracking Shots”, Village Voice, July 22, 2009
S. James Snyder, “California Company Town, Time Out New York, July 23, 2009
Benjamin Strong, “California Company Town”, L Magazine, July 22, 2009
Andrew Schenker, “California Company Town”, Slant Magazine, July 19, 2009
Kam Williams, “Ghost Towns Reveal American History in Brilliant Documentary”, The Sly Fox, July 27, 2009 Eric Monder, “California Company Town-Film Review”, The
Hollywood Reporter, July 22, 2009
Johnny Ray Huston, “West Ghost”, San Francisco Bay Guardian, March 18,
2009
Max Goldberg, “Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere: Lee Anne Schmitt on California Company Town”, Cinemascope 39, July 2009
Elisabeth Lequeret, “Terra Incognita: 23 Films to Look Out For”, Film Comment, January 23, 2009
Johnny Ray Huston, “The Land of the Screen”, San Francisco Bay Area Guardian, October 15, 2008
Jacques Mandelbaum, “Trois Beaux Documentaires sur le Capitalisme”, Le Monde, February 28, 2009
Rober Koehler, “Review; California Company Town, Variety, October 3, 2008
Mark Peranson, “Editor’s Note”, Cinemascope 36, January 2009 Caherine Taft, “Doom Towns”, ARTFORUM, September 21, 2008 Nicole Amour, “To Everything a Season, spotlight in the
FCMM” Cinema Scope, issue 17, winter 2003
Jack Helbig, “Critics Choice, Across”, Chicago Reader, June 13th, 1998
Carol Burbank, “Strangeness in a Strange Land; Being One, Being Living”, Chicago Reader, August 22, 1997
Jack Helbig, ‘Critics Choice, Being One Being Living’ , Chicago Reader, August 8, 1997
Jack Helbig,‘Critics Choice, So That I may come Back”, Chicago Reader, March 25, 1997
Laura Molzahn,“Female Voices, Summertime”, Chicago Reader, March 8, 1996
Laura Molzahn, “Baubo Performance Project, Christine Munch, Rebecca Rossen, and August Tye at the Athenaeum
Theater: Prisoners of Meaning”, Chicago Reader, November 10, 1995
Jack Helbig, “Critic’s Choice, Apocalyptic Canapés”, Chicago Reader, October 13, 1994
Stephanie Shaw, “Salem: This Land Is.”, Chicago Reader, October 29, 1993
Grants, Residencies, Awards
2009 Full Frame Film Festival: HBO Emerging Filmmaker Award; Honorable Mention
2009 Cinema Du Reel: Special Mention Library Award
Winner Pierre and Yolande Perrault Grant
2008 Faculty Development Grant, CalArts
2007 Professional Development Grant, Flaherty Seminar
2007 Summer Residency, Ucross Foundation 1996, 1997, 1998 Chicago Artists Assistance Grant References:
Thom Andersen, Filmmaker
Professor, Live Action Department
California Institute of the Arts, 24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia, California 91355
icepickslim@gmail.com/(323) 666 6977 James Benning, Filmmaker
California Institute of the Arts 24700 McBean Parkway Valencia, California 91355
jbenning@calarts.edu/ (661) 253 7822 Naomi Uman, Filmmaker
24211 Race Street, Newhall, CA 91235 naomiuman@yahoo.com
(661) 288 2854
Gary Mairs, Director, Film Directing Program
California Institute of the Arts, 24700 McBean Parkway, Valencia, California 91355
