Joua Lee Grande

Joua Lee Grande (She/Her)
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Joua Lee Grande is a Hmong American storyteller, filmmaker and community connector whose work elevates under-heard voices and experiences. Her work has screened on platforms like WORLD Channel, PBS digital, CAAMFest, L.A. Asian American Film Fest and PBS Short Film Festival. Her short film On All Fronts received an Honorable Mention for CAAMFest’s Loni Ding Award for Social Justice Documentary and was part of a series that earned a Daytime Emmy nomination. Her first feature Spirited is in post-production. She is part of a growing midwest film community where she mentors and supports underrepresented filmmakers to tell stories from their own communities. She spent over 10 years in community nonprofits supporting storytellers, families and youth. Joua is a member of groups like Brown Girls Doc Mafia, Documentary Producers Alliance and CôR Collective, and she served on the leadership team of Asian American Documentary Network (A-Doc). She was a PBS Accelerator Fellow (2023), True/False Confluence Fellow (2023), a Jerome Hill Artist Fellow (2021-23), a MediaJustice Network Fellow (2021-22) and Diverse Voices in Docs fellow (2019).