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Leslie Buchbinder is a Chicago-based documentary filmmaker and founder of Pentimenti Productions, a not-for-profit organization founded in 2010 that produces educational documentary films focused on visual arts. Buchbinder is most known for her directorial debut film, Hairy Who and the Chicago Imagists, which has received positive critical reception from national and international film festivals. She also serves on the Committee on Prints and Drawings of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Advisory Board of the Chicago Film Archives.
Education and career
After attending the Francis W. Parker School of Chicago, Buchbinder studied English as an Undergraduate at Northwestern University, and later returned to the university for post-graduate work in performance art. Buchbinder spent time as a professional dancer in Chicago and New York City, and worked at The Kreisberg Group, a New York based Public Relations firm specializing in the arts. She later returned to Chicago and established an Arts PR company of her own, called LB-PR.
Transitioning in 2008 into a career in filming, she ambitiously began working on her directorial debut, Hairy Who and the Chicago Imagists, and later founded Pentimenti Productions.
She is currently working on Pentimenti Production's second feature film, to be based on printmaker and sculptor H.C. Westermann. This film is expected to be released in late 2017.