We’re honored that Walk by Me is one of ten international works-in-progress featured at Hot Docs 2025. Lisa will present footage and answer questions during her presentation on April 28, and will attend meetings April 29-May 2. Industry can contact Lisa through the Hot Docs portal or at lisa@lisaleeman.com
The documentary field is experiencing a quiet revolution around documentary ethics, revisiting long-cherished ideas and putting more Emphasis on the filmmaker/participant relationship and participant care. Here’s a link to the Peace is Loud page with resources for ethical filmmaking. Huge shoutout to Stephanie Palumbo, Margie Ratliff, Jennifer Tiexiera, and countless others for creating these resources and making them available for free.
This resource helps filmmakers and participants create healthy dialogues about consent, compensation, creative rights, and other pressing issues. co-created by Margie Ratliff and Peace is Loud. Margie is the founding director of the Documentary Participants Empowerment Alliance (DPEA), which aims to bring vital resources to all those who have appeared in or are considering appearing in documentary films.
Co-created by Jennifer Tiexiera and Peace is Loud, this resource details a model for establishing informed, active consent throughout the filmmaking process. Jennifer is the co-director of the seminal film Subject, which asks “In the Golden Age of Documentary, Who Benefits?” The film explores the life-altering experience of sharing one’s life on screen through key participants of acclaimed documentaries The Staircase, Hoop Dreams, The Wolfpack, Capturing the Friedmans, and The Square.
There are several other helpful resources on the Peace is Loud page for Participant Care, including a case study. Check it out!
I was awarded a 2024 Macdowell Fellowship and a 2025 Bogliasco Fellowship – both are artist residencies, given to continue writing and editing Walk by Me. A huge honor!
Here’s the list of MacDowell Fellows for Fall 2024/Spring 2025 – i’m honored to be among them. MacDowell is the oldest artist residence in the United States, and they provide uninterrupted time to reflect, innovate, study, practice, and create. My time there was productive and inspiring, and led to several breakthroughs in my editing of Walk by Me. There’s a magic at MacDowell which comes from a combination of artists from different disciplines having the solitude to create in private studios and also come together at dinners, artist shares, trips to the local pond, game nights, and star-watching at the amphitheater. Past Fellows include James Baldwin, Thornton Wilder, Ta-Nahisi Coates, Meredith Monk, Studs Terkel, Suzan-Lori Parks, Aaron Copland, and so many more.
The Bogliasco Center is based on the Italian Ligurian coast near Genoa. We were 8 artists and humanities scholars, doing a mix of creative and scholarly work. I love Bogliasco’s emphasis on carefully designed international cohorts, so our work can cross-fertilize each other and echo around the world. Here’s the list of Fellows for Spring 2025. I started taking Italian lessons, and got a LOT of work done on Walk by Me during my month at Bogliasco!
“Impresario, artistic director, development whiz & mainstay of Circus Flora – for David, “the circus was always a microcosm of the world, a harmonic unity of the opposites that David drew together within the grand tent…He had no children, except for Flora the elephant.”
Read David’s obituary here.
I think David would have chuckled at the New York Times headline of his obit:
David, you will be sorely missed.
Laemmle Music Hall Theater in Beverly Hills, June 24 through Thursday July 7
Showtimes: Sat 2:50, 8pm, 10pm Sun 2:50, 8pm Mon 2:50, 8pm Tues-Thurs 8pm
The film team appears for Q&A after Friday, Saturday and Sunday night 8pm screenings. Special Guests for next week screenings to be announced here & on our Facebook page.
One Lucky Elephant played at Manhattan’s Film Forum June 8-21
Opened in Los Angeles June 24, one week only at Laemmle Music Hall theater
