Fredric Lean

Fredric Lean is an award-winning documentary filmmaker known for his work about social and humanitarian issues.

Fredric Lean
OccupationWriter, Director, Producer. Comic Book Author.

Biography

Born in France from an Italian descent family. Lean grew up with a family of musicians and artists. Lean studied film and television at the University of California, Los Angeles (U.C.L.A).

At a very early age, he participated in 2 LP records, as a lead vocal, with Max Berlin (aka: Jean-Pierre Cerrone). One record was called 'Dream Disco',[1] followed by 'New Wave' [2] a few years after. He's also the nephew of French disco pop icon Cerrone.

After developing several different business ventures in Europe, Lean decided to get his hands on more creative work. He wrote under the name of Frederic Galfo, a comic book series called Wolf; The Last Howl, published Semic Publications. He, then, partnered with a major French TV network M6, Cinegroupe (Canada), showrunner Larry Mollin (The Renegade, Beverly Hills 90210, Largo Winch) and producer Steve Waterman (The Black Stallion, Stuart Little 1 & 2, Alvin & the Chipmunks) to develop an international co-production for the adaptation of a best-selling French comic book series called Docteur Justice (aka: Dr. Justice) published in comics book series calledPif Gadget[3]

Lean created the first and only website entirely dedicated to Dr. Justice in order to re-launch the comic franchise. The site won international web awards in 2003 and in 2004.[4]

Lean made his directorial film debut, with a 27 minutes drama entitled Fragile Fragile,[5] starring Sheree J. Wilson[6] known for prime-time television series Dallas and Walker, Texas Ranger. The mini-DV short was part of the Official Selection of the Short Film Corner at the Cannes Film Festival 2006.

Fredric Lean completed his first feature documentary called Iraq: The Wind of Hope-The Wind of Al-Amal with the support of U.N.H.C.R (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) and IRC (International Rescue Committee). The film explores the complicated struggle and fragmented stories of some Iraqi refugees and exiled as some of them attempt to integrate themselves into the American landscape while struggling with the demons of their past. The film was screened at the Headquarters of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in New York in June 2012.[7] He stated in an interview[8] it took him 4 years to make mainly because of the lack of budget and lack of interest by mainstream media. It was principally a one-man crew film (himself), except for few scenes shot in Iraq and in the US.

His second documentary Skydancers is an award-winning one-hour documentary, part of a series of several episodes (in development) about women in aviation. This first episode is about some of the world's top women aerobatics pilots. Skydancers won international recognition and was part of Official Selections in several films festivals. In October 2014, Lean won his first award for 'Best Directing' at the Los Angeles New Wave International Film Festival.[9] Skydancers won 3 additional awards ('Best Feature Documentary', 'Best Concept', & 'Best Cinematography'). In November 2014, the film won Third Place in the 'Best Feature Documentary' category at the All Sports Los Angeles Film Festival.[10][11] The film has also been part of the Official Selection of the Palm Beach International Film Festival, Artemis Women in Action Film Festival, and the Manhattan Film Festival. Official Selection in the 'Best Documentary' category at the Filmfestival Kitzbuehel

After acquiring a license for several European territories, RedBull Media House aired the film Skydancers in Europe via their TV network, Servus TV. The film was relayed by Astra-Satellite to more than 35 countries representing more than 93 million direct-to-home (DTH) - consequently making Lean's award-winning film, the most broadcast documentary about women in aviation - ever!

His work has been shown on several medias such as Red Bull, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, Snagfilms to name a few...

Lean has several TV series and film projects under development under Leanmedia Company

References
  1. "Max Berlin's 'Dream Disco'". Discog.com.
  2. "Max Berlin 'New Wave;". Discog.com.
  3. "Award de Docteur Justice". Pif Collection. Archived from the original on 2014-11-21. Retrieved 2019-12-21.
  4. "The Doctor Is In At Golden Web Awards". Animation Magazine.
  6. "Interview by Sheree Wilson". Sheree J. Wilson.
  7. "Interview Fredric Lean". SirkTV.
  8. "IR: exclusive interview by Fredric lean". Inside Reel.
  9. "Award Winners 2014". Los Angeles New Wave International Film Festival.
  10. "Official website". All Sports Los Angeles Film Festival.
  11. "Frederic Lean - Skydancers' film director". Snap & Roll.
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