Lesli Klainberg Filmography

Occupation:: Co-producer, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

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Indie Sex: Taboos

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: Originally produced for IFC, this four-part mini-series exploring sex in independent cinema features the stimulating insight of such acclaimed filmmakers and actors as Allison Anders, Miguel Arteta, Atom Egoyan, Elvis Mitchell, and John Waters. In this installment, documentary filmmakers Lesli Read More

2007
Indie Sex: Censored

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: Originally produced for IFC, this four-part mini-series exploring sex in independent cinema features the stimulating insight of such acclaimed filmmakers and actors as Atom Egoyan, Catherine Breillat, Larry Clark, Greg Araki, Rosanna Arquette, and John Cameron Mitchell. Ever since that first Read More

2007
Indie Sex: Extremes

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Originally produced for IFC, this four-part mini-series exploring sex in independent cinema features the stimulating insight of such acclaimed filmmakers and actors as Catherine Breilat, Guinevere Turner, John Cameron Mitchell, Peter Sarsgaard, and Bilge Ebiri. When it comes to the topic of sex Read More

2007
Indie Sex: Teens

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Originally produced for IFC, this four-part mini-series exploring sex in independent cinema features the stimulating insight of such acclaimed filmmakers and actors as Catherine Breilat, Heather Matarazzo, Atom Egoyan, Peter Sarsgaard, and Ally Sheedy. When it comes to cinema, few topics are more Read More

2007
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Todd Haynes, Ang Lee, Jennie Livingston, Heather Matarazzo, John Cameron Mitchell

Synopsis: Gay, lesbian, and transgender filmmakers, actors, and critics explore the history of queer cinema in this made-for-cable documentary. Eschewing any overarching narration, co-directors Lesli Klainberg and Lisa Ades illustrate archival footage and film clips with dozens of interviews. They also Read More

2006
In the Company of Women

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Allison Anders, Lisa Cholodenko, Patricia Clarkson, Jodie Foster, Shari Frilot

Synopsis: Gini Reticker and Lesli Klainberg direct the 74-minute documentary In the Company of Women, a production of the Independent Film Channel. The film offers an introduction to the major women of independent filmmaking, starting in the 1980s. It includes commentary from directors Allison Anders, Lisa Cholodenko Read More

2004
The American Tapestry

Crew: Co-producer

Synopsis: Gregory Nava weaves together a series of first hand accounts of the immigrant experience in America for this emotionally powerful, unabashedly-patriotic documentary. Polish Jew Murray Schneider recalls the exultant joy he felt when he was finally reuniting with his family in Ellis Island, while Read More

2000
Directed by Alan Smithee

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: The truth behind reviled Hollywood schlockmeister Alan Smithee is revealed in this documentary presented by the American Movie Classics Channel. Identified as having directed around 50 films between the late '60s and the late '90s, Smithee -- in actuality -- is not a real person at all but is Read More

2000
Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End

Crew: Producer

Actors: Linda Hunt

Synopsis: Paul Monette was a well-regarded gay novelist who (after losing two long-term companions to AIDS) wrote Becoming A Man: Half a Life Story, a memoir which won the Nation Book Award. Ironically, Monette began to receive his greatest acclaim as a writer and produced his deepest and most personal Read More

1997