ABOUT
Lea Schlude was raised between Germany and Italy, and studied Philosophy and Film in Hildesheim and Berlin, and in Belém, Brazil. Her debut feature film SAN CIPRIANO ROAD (2019) screened at film festivals worldwide and was awarded twice for Best Feature Documentary. Schlude is a recipient of the Wim Wenders Grant from the Wim Wenders Foundation and NRW Film Commission for the development of her second feature HAZY VALLEY, and was a fellow of the Documentary Campus Masterschool 2023. Her second documentary STEELWORKER (2025) targets gender equality in the German steel industry and is currently streaming on German public broadcast. The radio-feature STEELWORKER aired on German public radio Deutschlandfunk in 2025.
FILMOGRAPHY
2027 HAZY VALLEY 90 min. - in development
2025 STAHLARBEITERIN (Changing Rolls) 31 min.
2019 SAN CIPRIANO ROAD (Via San Cipriano), Germany/Italy, 67 min.
NOTE
My work explores issues of place, memory and identity at the intersection of film and philosophy. I am interested in the major political struggles of contemporary societies - labor, race, gender and ecology - and how they manifest locally, in human interactions within specific environments and microcosms. While my research is informed by critical theory, I feel especially drawn to textures and fragments, peripheries and liminal spaces between nature and culture, objects and subjects, body and mind.
MEMBERSHIPS
AG DOK - Arbeitsgemeinschaft Dokumentarfilm
Doc/it - Associazione Documentaristi Italiani