Andrea Leland

Roles: Director

Leland has produced and directed award-winning documentaries focusing on Caribbean cultures having won numerous awards and have screened at museums, conferences, and festivals throughout Europe, Latin America, and the United States. Residing both in Northern California and St John, USVI she has seen first-hand the urgency of creating films about the ocean crisis. Leland is a member of New Day Film and has an MFA from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. She is the co-founder of Every Second Breath Project, a short-film ​series that gives voice to (extra)ordinary people whose lives have been transformed by the ocean, who are doing something to heal the ocean and shares this with their community – thus becoming agents of change.