Alisa Lebow

Alisa Lebow (Co-Producer, Director, Writer, Editor) is a filmmaker and film scholar who teaches documentary theory and production at the University of the West of England. She is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships and her work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the New Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, and in theaters and festivals around the world. In 1995 she completed a short video in collaboration with Cynthia Madansky entitled INTERNAL COMBUSTION about lesbians and AIDS (distributed by Video Data Bank). In 1994 she produced, shot and edited OUTLAW starring Leslie Feinberg (distributed by Women Make Movies) broadcast on WNET's Reel NY series. Her film TREYF (1998, in collaboration with Cynthia Madansky) has been broadcast on the Sundance Channel and LOGO TV. Her book "First Person Jewish" about Jewish autobiographical film is forthcoming from University of Minnesota Press. She is currently working on a video about the World Tribunal on Iraq (held in Istanbul, June 2005) to be completed in 2006. (12/30/05)

Outlaw
A film by Alisa Lebow, 1994, 26 min., Color
Leslie Feinberg, a self-identified "gender outlaw" who has spent much of her life passing as a man, speaks with passion and intelligence about her exp...

Treyf
A film by Alisa Lebow and Cynthia Madansky, 1998, 55 min., Color
TREYF —“unkosher” in Yiddish— is an unorthodox documentary by and about two Jewish lesbians who met and fell in love at a Passover “seder”. With perso...