Lisa Lewenz
Producer
A Letter Without Words is Lisa Lewenz’s first film. Her multimedia art projects have been exhibited widely throughout the U.S. and she has been recognized with three consecutive Fulbright Research Fellowships to Germany; two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships; a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship to Berlin; the 1989 Ferguson Award; the Baltimore Mayor’s Commission Fellowship; numerous state arts fellowships; and residency fellowships to LaNapoule, France and Amherst College. Lewenz received broad critical acclaim for her photographic documentaries, 1984: A View from Three Mile Island, Towards a More Perfect Union, and Idol Worship/Idle Warship. She taught at New York University, the University of Illinois, and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, and was primary researcher in Germany for CBS News and the Discovery Channel documentaries. She has worked as a project director with the artist Christo and as programming assistant for filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow. Lewenz holds a BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago (where she studied with avant-garde filmmaker, Stan Brakhage) and an MFA from CalArts.