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LeAnn Erickson is a university professor and independent film and media artist. Her work has appeared on public and cable television, in media and art galleries, and has won national and international recognition in film festivals.

Screenings include: Hot Docs International Documentary Film Festival (Toronto, Canada), Oberhausen International Short Film Festival (Germany), Internationales Frauen Film Festival (Cologne, Germany), Women in the Director’s Chair (Chicago) and L’immagine Leggera Palermo International Videoart, Film, and Media Festival (Italy).

In 2010 she completed Top Secret Rosies: The Female Computers of WWII, a feature length historical documentary that has screened internationally and is distributed by PBS, Inc. In 2022 she released I (heart)Jack LaLanne: A Cartoon Memoir, an animated documentary that has won awards and screened internationally. Currently she is developing a feature documentary film and distributing two experimental short films.

Much of my film work centers on illuminating women's stories- particularly stories that help address gaps in history.Possible screening titles include:Neighbor Ladies, c. 2005In the 1950’s white Americans were fleeing inner cities, spurred on by an unscrupulous real estate practice known as blockbusting. With its diversity at risk, a Philadelphia neighborhood decided to fight back.Top Secret Rosies: The Female Computers of WWII, c. 2010In 1942 a secret US military program was launched to recruit women to the war effort. But unlike the efforts to recruit Rosie to the factory, this search targeted female mathematicians who would compute ballistic tables for every weapon in the US arsenal. Rosie made the weapons, but the female computers made them accurate. When the first electronic computer (ENIAC) was developed to aid the Army’s calculation efforts, six of these women were tapped to become its first programmers.  Top Secret ‘Rosies’: The Female ‘Computers’ of WWII shares a story of the women and technology that helped win a war and usher in the modern computer age.