Elena Greenlee

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Summary

Elena Greenlee is a filmmaker and actor whose work includes producing Manos Sucias and directing Mariachi and the short High Season. She has described making socially relevant stories from underexplored angles and exploring complex, global identities to challenge the oversimplification of nationality; she has also described Manos Sucias as a story about Afro-Colombians’ place in the drug trade. No public partisan campaigning or advocacy-group affiliations are on record.