JALENA KEANE-LEE

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JALENA KEANE-LEE

Jalena Keane-Lee is a director, dp, producer and the co-founder of Breaktide Productions, an all women of color video production company that has earned awards and recognition from Sundance, the Aspen Institute, the Washington Post, SXSW, ITVS, Cannes Lions, and TEDx. Jalena’s short film PERIOD GIRL, follows Nadya Okamoto a young menstrual activist, premiered at CAAM and is now being adapted into a docuseries co-produced by Stick Figure Productions. Her film STANDING ABOVE THE CLOUDS, funded by Pacific Islanders in Communication, is a short documentary being adapted into a feature that follows native Hawaiian mother daughter activists as they stand to protect their sacred mountain from the building of the world’s largest telescope.