Jalena Keane-Lee
Jalena Keane-Lee is a filmmaker
who explores intergenerational trauma and healing through an
intersectional lens. She was named a 2023 Adobe x Sundance Woman to
Watch, and is the recipient of the Gotham Documentary Fellowship,
Creative Culture woman filmmaker fellowship, Wyncote Fellowship and
NeXt Doc Fellowship. Jalena is the winner of Tribeca Through Her Lens
2020 and DocPitch 2022. Her short films have streamed on POV and
Criterion Collection, played at over 50 film festivals, and won 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. Jalena is currently working on her first feature-length
documentary which participated in the 2022 Sundance Edit and Story Lab.
- Tracing History
- Standing Above the Clouds