Filmmaker Profile:Angelina Lee
Angelina Lee
Angelina Lee was named an Obama Fellow at Occidental College’s Barack Obama Scholars Program to produce a documentary about regenerative agriculture, “The Big Raise.” She worked as the writer, director, VFX artist, and editor for short fiction film “Quercus,” Research Assistant for the PPE Portrait Project, producer for feature film “Let's Meet Halfway,” cinematographer for “At Last Deserted,” producer for “Miss Metadata,” and sound recordist for “It Was Nothing.” Her feature-length documentary "Making a Mini-Forest" comes out in Winter 2024, which covers the emerging international movement of planting “Tiny Forests,” or “pocket forests” to restore native forests.
This Q&A is part of the Bushwick Film Fest Filmmaker Q&A series.
Q&A with ANGELINA LEE
Why does this story need to be told now?
Increasingly, people are learning of environmental degradation, and naturally ask, "What can we do?" Permaculture is one answer -- one that employs an entirely new way of thinking and can do a lot with little land.
How do you want people to feel after they see your film?
Hopefully, enchanted by the rhythm of the seasons, which was a major part of the film's narrative. I hope people feel that there's a lot of things we can do here, right now, to lessen our impact on the environment.
What was the biggest inspiration behind this film?
The expressive, visually breathtaking documentaries "Honeyland" and "Bitterbrush" inspired this film. I wanted to tell the story through images.
Can you tell us about the central themes of your film? What message or emotion did you hope to convey?
It takes a different way of thinking to create a reciprocal relationship with our immediate natural environment. That can only lead to abundance. When we actively support our local pollinators and little critter neighbors, our own harvest can increase tenfold.
Angelina Lee’s Q&A is part of the Bushwick Film Fest Filmmaker Q&A series.
