LEMIA BODDEN (Writer / Director / Producer)
Lemia Monét Bodden hails from the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her BFA, with honors, from New York University in Film Production in 2008 and a TV Writing Certificate from UCLA Extension in 2021. Her student short film, LOVE'S LOST, was selected and shown at the 60th Cannes International Film Festival - Short Film Corner. She went on to direct, write, produce, and edit a short film called GLANCE, in 2013, which was accepted into Auckland International Film Festival, Gallery TOKYO, and curated by IFC Center in NYC during May 2018. She directed her short film, BLIND, which was shot in Los Angeles in the fall of 2019. Lemia has written two TV Pilots, RHEINLAND and NAJAH/RUTH, where RHEINLAND was accepted into The Orchard Project Episodic Lab 2022 and Stowe Story Labs 2022 and made 2nd round for Black Boy Writes/Black Girl Writes Initiative 2022. My pilot, NAJAH/RUTH, was a quarterfinalist for The Writer's Lab 2025.
A photographer since she was 12 years old, Lemia has had her work in over 50 exhibitions, including The United Nations, Momenta Art, New York Photo Festival, DUMBO Arts Festival, MPLS Photo Center, Freies Museum Berlin, Vox Populi, Root Division, ACUD MACHT NEU Galerie, ARLES 2018, Altonaer Museum Hamburg, and Ferencvarosi Gallery in Budapest, Hungary.
LEMIA BODDEN (Writer / Director / Producer)
Lemia Monét Bodden hails from the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her BFA, with honors, from New York University in Film Production in 2008 and a TV Writing Certificate from UCLA Extension in 2021. Her student short film, LOVE'S LOST, was selected and shown at the 60th Cannes International Film Festival - Short Film Corner. She went on to direct, write, produce, and edit a short film called GLANCE, in 2013, which was accepted into Auckland International Film Festival, Gallery TOKYO, and curated by IFC Center in NYC during May 2018. She directed her short film, BLIND, which was shot in Los Angeles in the fall of 2019. Lemia has written two TV Pilots, RHEINLAND and NAJAH/RUTH, where RHEINLAND was accepted into The Orchard Project Episodic Lab 2022 and Stowe Story Labs 2022 and made 2nd round for Black Boy Writes/Black Girl Writes Initiative 2022. My pilot, NAJAH/RUTH, was a quarterfinalist for The Writer's Lab 2025.
A photographer since she was 12 years old, Lemia has had her work in over 50 exhibitions, including The United Nations, Momenta Art, New York Photo Festival, DUMBO Arts Festival, MPLS Photo Center, Freies Museum Berlin, Vox Populi, Root Division, ACUD MACHT NEU Galerie, ARLES 2018, Altonaer Museum Hamburg, and Ferencvarosi Gallery in Budapest, Hungary.
