LEANN ERICKSON is a Professor Emeritus of film at Temple University and an independent film and media artist  Her work has screened on public and cable television, on streaming services including Netflix and Kanopy, in media and art galleries, and has received international recognition in film and media festivals.

Her international awards include recognition by the Next Generation Independent Film Awards (Los Angeles, CA), the MEDEA Awards (Brussels, Belgium) and the Exis Awards (Seoul, South Korea). Her films have also garnered many top festival prizes including Best Animated film, Best Experimental film, Best Short film, and several Audience Awards.

Festival screenings include: Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival (Toronto CN), Oberhausen International Short Film Festival (Germany), Feminale International Women’s Film Festival (Dortmund/Cologne, Germany), Women in the Director’s Chair (Chicago) and L’immagine Leggera: International Competition of Videoart and Experimental Film (Palermo, Italy).

Her documentary film titles include: Top Secret Rosies: The Female Computers of WWII, c. 2010; Folk Songs, c.2007; Everybody Promenade, c. 2007; Neighbor Ladies, c. 2005 and From One Place to Another: Emma Goldman Clinic Stories, 1996.

Her experimental videos include: Grapefruit Parts, c. 2025, fuze, c. 2024, Oracle, c. 2022, Apollo, c. 2021; interference, c. 2005; hours, minutes, seconds, frame, c. 1999 and Essential Things, c. 1997.

Animation titles include: I (heart) Jack LaLanne: A Cartoon Memoir, c. 2022; Fun Days with Jake, c. 2002, and bees, a documentary, c. 2001.

Erickson is a recipient of regional and national production grants for her work from such funding sources as NEA, AAUW, the Jerome Foundation and The Leeway Foundation. In 2003 and 2006 she was awarded the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship for media arts. Currently Erickson is pitching a television series based on the Top Secret Rosies story and is distributing an animated film memoir featuring the life of fitness guru Jack LaLanne. Currently Erickson is pitching a television series based on the Top Secret Rosies story and is in development on a feature documentary film focused on the power of art to heal trauma and build community.