Filmmakers

Anne Lewis is an independent documentary maker associated with Appalshop. Her work reveals working class people fighting for social change and celebrates Appalachian culture. Anne was associate director/assistant camera for "Harlan County, U.S.A.," the Academy Award-winning documentary. After the strike, she moved to the eastern Kentucky coalfields where she lived for 25 years.

Documentaries she produced, directed, and edited include: To Save the Land and People (SXSW, Texas Documentary Tour); Justice in the Coalfields (INTERCOM gold plaque); On Our Own Land (duPont-Columbia award for independent broadcast journalism); Chemical Valley co-directed with Mimi Pickering (POV, American Film and Video Festival Blue Ribbon); and Fast Food Women (POV and Judges’ Choice, London Film Festival). Morristown: in the air and sun was shown at the Library of Congress and has toured 16 cities in Mexico with the AMBULANTE festival and Anne Braden: Southern Patriot with co-director Mimi Pickering “(A gem of a film," Joan Baez). 

Other recognized work includes: Evelyn Williams (Juror’s Choice, Black Maria Film Festival, Margaret Meade Festival); Belinda (CINE Golden Eagle); and Minnie Black\'s Gourd Band (Retirement Research Foundation Silver Owl Award, Museum of Modern Art screening).

More recent work includes A Strike and an Uprising (in Texas) (DC Labor Fest, San Francisco Labor Fest, Zinn Education Project), Raulrsalinas and the Poetry of Liberation with Laura Varela (Frame of Mind TX PBS broadcast) and On Dying of Dementia in a Capitalist System, recently licensed by PBS Shorts.

Anne is a Professor of Practice at the University of Texas at Austin. For additional information including how to view please visit https://annelewis.org/