Lisa Leeman

Doc filmmaker/professor/writer. @WalkByMeFilm AWAKE (Yogananda); One Lucky Elephant; Crazy Wisdom; Metamorphosis; Out of Faith; American Veda Docu Project,

[Lisa Leeman @lisalmn]

@CorbinBolies @Variety Please include documentaries in your AI coverage!

[Lisa Leeman @lisalmn]

@shannonrwatts More like skeletal

[ABC News @ABC]

Elon Musk’s DOGE “blatantly used” race, gender and other protected characteristics to execute the largest mass termination of federal grants in the history of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal judge ruled on Thursday.

Read more: https://t.co/fYUWjjG5ed

[ANNE LAMOTT @ANNELAMOTT]

Hey Bay Area, Wavy Gravy’s 90th birthday at the Masonic Auditorium in SF 5/16. A celebration and fundraiser for his foundation Seva, which has been restoring eyesight around the world for years. Steve Earle, Cat Power, Todd Rundgren, Moldy Peaches & more. https://t.co/gnDDzSOYD9.

[Lisa Leeman @lisalmn]

@CodeThreeNews Did they catch the suspect?

[Lisa Leeman @lisalmn]

@nikkibrownxo @spencerpratt @nithyavraman @KarenBassLA @SPxLAMedia @DyingVenice Lived here 31 years. This is not normal Venice.

[Lisa Leeman @lisalmn]

@ScannerPacific @DyingVenice @VeniceIntel Thnx

[Lisa Leeman @lisalmn]

@michaelpollan Book looks great. In my filmmaking classes I teach a module on uncertainty - ie, certainty can produce cognitive closure, which is not helpful for artists!

[Lisa Leeman @lisalmn]

Sirens & helicopter near #Venice dog park on Main Street - any idea what’s happening ? @ScannerPacific #venicebeach

[Lisa Leeman @lisalmn]

@JenniferJJacobs @CBSNews What kind of “reporting” is this ? A simple google search shows the Wide Awakes were a civil war era group. https://t.co/P8QzwsTY9m

[POV Magazine @POVmagazine]

#NowHiring: Editorial Assistant - Great opportunity for aspiring journalists looking to enter the film beat! https://t.co/hYBkBlbSR6

[Poynter @Poynter]

Learn to geolocate. Develop an eye for AI. Archive everything.

As bystander and surveillance videos continue to drive major news stories, visual investigation skills are mandatory.

Here are 5 tips to verify video authenticity online, debunk AI-generated content and become a better visual investigator: https://t.co/flNhV0kfCH

[National Endowment for the Humanities @NEHgov]

NEH's Media Projects grant program is accepting applications!

Deadline to apply is June 25, 2026.

Learn more: https://t.co/hW3OcJAHcK

[Lisa Leeman @lisalmn]

“The glory of art is that it can not only survive change, it can lead it.” -Robert Redford #Oscars

[Lisa Leeman @lisalmn]

Terrific #reporting with nuance ending #Banksy #ethics

[Ira Dugal @dugalira]

Who is Banksy?

What a fabulous read.

https://t.co/hONUDPZ8ga

[Roy E. Bahat @roybahat]

Outside Anthropic's office in SF... intense moment!

[Lisa Leeman @lisalmn]

Happy #FairUse week!

[Authors Alliance @auths_alliance]

Happy Fair Use Week, everyone! We love fair use. We use it every day, and you probably do, too. So as a part of the Fair Use week celebrations, we are extending our series on the 50th Anniversary of the Copyright Act of 1976 to include a week of posts on Section 107 of Title 17, our fair use statute.

https://t.co/4Qt26qpPtf

[Lisa Leeman @lisalmn]

@mikeastahl She’s great. But we don’t all have a spare $50,000

[Variety @Variety]

Stellen Skarsgard on the the growing presence of AI in the movie industry:

"For thousands of years, people have been very much interested in people. Describing people is what theater does, what film does — and what we do best. In film — even better than in television — you can describe all the unspoken words, all the unspoken facets of a relationship that are almost impossible to explain but are still there. We will always be curious about other people. That curiosity will never leave us."

What form it takes, how it will be produced — maybe some people will be happy enough with what AI can produce, and some will not. But I think the main problem for the moving image industry today is the concentration of capital. And the concentration of capital is the problem for every industry, for humanity. AI is nothing without the men behind it. AI is owned by the tech barons standing right behind power."

https://t.co/eR9evtqCxY

[Lisa Leeman @lisalmn]

Ok #LadyGaga

[Carlos Aguilar @Carlos_Film]

Earlier this week I moderated a Q&A with the filmmakers behind MR. NOBODY AGAINST PUTIN and Pavel Talankin, co-director/subject, said he hopes Lady Gaga learns that he played her version of the U.S. national anthem to protest the propaganda in the Russian school he worked at.