Uploaded August 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Captured with ZEISS Loxia lenses, STANDING ABOVE THE CLOUDS
follows Native Hawaiian mother-daughter activists as they stand to protect their sacred mountain Mauna Kea from the building of the world’s largest telescope. Directed and shot by filmmaker Jalena Kean-Lee who is the co-founder of Breaktide Productions, an all women of color video production company based in the Bay Area. Jalena is a 2018 NeXt Doc Fellow and a 2018 Sally Burns Shenkman Woman Filmmaker Fellow at the Jacob Burns Film Center.

Filmmaker and Cinematographer: Jalena Keane-Lee
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