
Lee Anne Schmitt
- Known for
- Directing
- Birthplace
- Cleveland, Ohio, USA
I am a writer and director of both film and performance events, working in film, writing, photography, and performance to create work that elevates the everyday elements of American life towards the level of cultural ritual. I have set out to explore the juncture between fiction and documentary that defines the ‘essay film’. All of my work begins with landscape, the experience of living in a particular place at a particular time, the phenomena of time and space, and the space between the ideology and the reality of the spaces we live within.
Filmography

Adulthood 2026
Writer

Evidence 2025
Director, Screenplay, Cinematography, Editor
- Cry Love
Cry Love 2020
Director

The Farnsworth Scores 2018
Director

Purge This Land 2017
Producer, Director
- womannightfilm
womannightfilm 2015
Director
- Williams Lake
Williams Lake 2015
Director
- Three Stories
Three Stories 2011
Director, Director of Photography, Editor

The Last Buffalo Hunt 2011
Director
- Bowers Cave
Bowers Cave 2010
Director

My White Baby 2009
Thanks
- The Wash
The Wash 2009
Director, Director of Photography

California Company Town 2008
Director

Awake and Sing 2003
Director

Nightingale 2002
Director

Las Vegas 2000
Director
Credits from TMDB.