Discipline: Film/Video

Leslie McCleave

Discipline: Film/Video
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 1995, 1999
Leslie McCleave is an independent filmmaker; has received awards at Sundance, SXSW, Los Angeles, Locarno, and San Francisco film festivals; films screened at New Directors/New Films at MoMA and broadcast on Sundance Channel and FilmFour UK; recipient of grants from NEA, Creative Capital Foundation, and Radziwill Documentary Fund.

Studios

Star

Leslie McCleave worked in the Star studio.

Funded by Alpha Chi Omega, a national fraternity founded in 1885, Star Studio — built in 1911–1912 — was the first studio given to the residency by an outside organization. To this day, Alpha Chi sorority pledges learn the story of Star Studio and its role in supporting American arts and letters. Beginning as a nicely proportioned…

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