Published Work
Lena Streitwieser has published a review in Film Matters Magazine on Swiss-Kurdish filmmaker Mano Khalil's 2021 film Neighbours.
Lena Streitwieser has published an analytical academic article in Film Matters Magazine on the connection between sound and music in Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film Psycho.
Streitwieser has also published an analytical academic article in the Eastern European Film Bulletin on director Márta Mészáros' use of memory as a filmic device in her 1984 political and historical film Diary for my Children (Napló gyermekeimnek).
Lena Streitwieser has worked on two music videos by the talented musical artist Nicknames (a.k.a. her big brother Max).
"Lazy" by Nicknames – Editor
"Skeletons" by Nicknames – Cinematographer
Lena Streitwieser is a jazz vocalist and pianist, having performed at Columbia University's Wang Performance Space as part of the Louis Armstrong Jazz Performance Program. She currently studies with the accomplished jazz singer Christine Correa in New York City. Previously, she studied classical and musical theater singing with Melissa Chavez, and contemporary vocal technique with Hayley Gayne.
Streitwieser has performed multiple gigs at Kensington Park Senior Living in Kensington, Maryland as a pianist and jazz vocalist. She also periodically performs with her high school band teacher John Howard and his trio at Little Beast restaurant in Chevy Chase, D.C. Her personal musical history continues to inform both her interest in the music she listens to and the music she composes.
Streitwieser is currently developing a one-act musical. Loosely based on her experience moving back to the U.S. after living abroad, it is a family drama raising questions and starting conversations about national identity, socio-economic status, generational tension, and mental illness.