Fredric Lean is an award-winning documentary filmmaker known for his work about social and humanitarian issues.
Biography
Born in France from an Italian descent family. Lean grew up with a family of musicians and artists. He’s the nephew of European Disco icon, Cerrone. Lean studied film and television at the University of California, Los Angeles. At a very early age, he participated in 2 LP records, as a le ad vocal, with Max Berlin. One record was called 'Dream Disco', followed by 'New Wave' 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, showrunner Larry Mollin and producer Steve Waterman to develop an international co-production for the adaptation of a best-selling French comic book series called Docteur Justice published in comics book series calledPif Gadget 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. Lean made his directorial film debut, with a 27 minutes drama entitled Fragile , starring Sheree J. Wilson 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 with the support of and IRC. 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. He stated in an interview 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, except for few scenes shot in Iraq and in the US. His second documentary is an award-winning one-hour documentary, part of a series of several episodes 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 WaveInternational Film Festival. Skydancers won 3 additional awards . In November 2014, the film won Third Place in the 'Best Feature Documentary' category at the All Sports Los Angeles Film Festival. The film has also been part of the Official Selection of the , , and the . Official Selection in the 'Best Documentary' category at the After acquiring a license for several European territories, aired the film in Europe via their TV network, . The film was relayed by to more than 35 countries representing more than 93 million direct-to-home - 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. He also has two tv and film projects under development with French film director, Pitof.
