Anne Lewis is an independent documentary-maker associated with Appalshop Films, a media arts and cultural center located in Whitesburg, Kentucky, in the heart of the Central Appalachian Coalfields. Her work reveals working class people fighting for social change. Anne was associate director/assistant camera for "Harland County, U.S.A," the Academy Award-winning documentary about the Brookside strike. After the strike, she moved to the eastern Kentucky coalfields where she lived for 25 years.

Documentaries she produced, directed, and edited include: "Anne Braden: Southern Patriot,"ANNE BRADEN: co-directed with Mimi Pickering, about the extraordinary life of a civil rights leader; "Morristown: In the Air and Sun, a working class critique of globalization; "To Save the Land and People," a history of a militant grassroots environmental movement; "Justice in the Coalfields," about the community impact of the Pittston strike; "On Our Own Land," about the citizens' movement to stop broad form deed strip mining; "Chemical Valley,"co-directed with Mimi Pickering, about environmental racism; and most recently, "Shelter," which tells the stories of 5 West Virginia women as they try to find freedom, justice and safety.

Her documentary "Fast Food Women," about women struggling to raise families in minimum wage jobs with no benefits, received national airing on P.O.V. and was part of a Learning Channel series of films about women by women.

She recently completed "A Strike and an Uprising (in Texas)." Films in progress include "Tender Promise: Education Story," an intimate look at public education, and two short films for children.