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Jalena Keane-Lee is a filmmaker who explores intergenerational trauma and healing through an intersectional lens. Named Paper Magazine’s Top 5 Asian creators to know, Jalena's work subverts traditional narratives about the female, AAPI experience. Sheʻs currently directing her first feature length film, Standing Above the Clouds which follows Native Hawaiian mother daughter activists and has been supported by Pacific Islanders in Communication, Nia Tero, CNN Films, and Points North Institute. Her short film by the same name screened at New Orleans Film Festival, NFFTY, and Allied Media Conference. Standing Above the Clouds won best short documentary at LA Asian Pacific Film Festival and Special Jury Mention from the Center for Asian American Media, and is playing on the Criterion Collection. Jalena co-founded Breaktide Productions, an all women of color production comapny, produced commercial series for Nike and Facebook, hosted the national environmental television show Eco Company, and won Tribecca Through Her Lens 2020. She’s also been an AAJA, NeXt Doc and Jacob Burns Film Center Fellow.