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Leslie Harris was born on 1960 in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S., is an American film director (born 1960). Discover Leslie Harris's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 65 years old?

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Leslie Harris is an American film director, screenwriter and producer.

1960

Director, screenwriter and producer Leslie Harris was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1960.

Harris earned a degree from Denison University, earning a B.F.A. in Studio Arts.

She also studied abroad in Aix-En-Provence, France during her junior year.

Her early film work consisted of animations and live action shorts.

1982

Harris moved to New York in 1982 where she began working in the advertising industry, including for major advertising firms such as FCB and Saatchi & Saatchi Worldwide (both members of the American Association of Advertising Agencies).

Harris soon grew frustrated with the limits of the advertising industry and moved into directing commercials.

Harris established her own commercials company catering to the small business community such as the "Exceptional Women of Color Hair Salon".

Harris took on temp work to pay the bills, writing her feature screenplays in between answering phone calls.

She also worked evenings at "Film/Video Arts", a nonprofit film and video rental and post-production facility where she had access to equipment she could use to create her films.

Harris attributes her mother’s advice, motivation, and encouragement from a young age to her success: her mother always insisted that women can achieve any career goal.

1992

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 filmmaking 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.

1993

In an interview with Charlie Rose in 1993, Harris discussed her frustration with most mainstream coming-of-age films, noting that most films of this type are about young men, while young women are portrayed as an appendage to the central male character.

"I actually wanted to bring the female characters to the foreground and deal with issues that really deal with young women coming of age in the '90s," Harris said.

Harris wanted to see a young African-American woman's coming-of-age story, from a female perspective, and set out to make it herself, stating that it's important that we see women both in front of and behind the camera.

The story of Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. was well-researched with the help of The Brooklyn Teen Pregnancy Center; Harris conducted interviews with counselors, teen mothers and teen fathers and the screenplay was written and rewritten over the course of a year and a half before being shot in only 17 days.

The film received funding via grants from National Endowments for the Arts, American Film Institute, New York State Council on the Arts, Brooklyn Arts Council and was distributed by Miramax on 200 screens in the U.S. and 20 other countries worldwide.

In 2022, Harris stated that she had completed a screenplay for a sequel to the film.

2015

In October 2015, during the audience Q&A portion of a conversation with film director Michael Moore at the New York Film Festival, Harris asked what minorities can do to break through in Hollywood.

Moore responded that the low number of female directors is "a form of apartheid."

Moore said "Women [and] especially men need to say this, and say it over and over and then do something about it. My guild, the Writers Guild [of America], Directors Guild [of America], we have to fix this. This is absolutely wrong".