Director

Leslie Harris

Directing

Career Snapshot

Explained

These indicators come from TMDB. They are relative signals, not review ratings.

Directed credits

Emerging

Beginning to build directing work.

TMDB popularity

0.4

Low visibility

TMDB internal trend index. Higher usually means more searches and page activity now.

Directed movies: 1Directed series: 0All crew credits: 2

TMDB ID: 1079381

IMDb ID: nm0365001

Known for: Directing

Place of birth: Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1993 - 2010

Years active: 18

Average TMDB rating: 6

Wikidata: Q17627785

Frequent jobs

Director (1)Producer (1)

TMDB TMDB IMDb IMDb W Wikidata

Biography

Leslie Harris (born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1960) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. Her early film work consisted of animations and live action shorts. With her 1992 film Just Another Girl on the I.R.T., Leslie Harris became the first African-American woman director, writer, producer and executive producer to win a Special Jury Prize at The Sundance Film Festival for Best Feature Film. Harris has lectured on film making and film at Tulane University, Wellesley College, Portland State University, Columbia University and the Canadian Film Institute. Harris has also taught both screenwriting and film production classes as both a full-time and adjunct professor at New York University Tisch School of the Arts.

Movies