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 * Write a sentence with italics
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 * Create an internal link to a wikipedia page
 * Leilah Weinraub
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 * https://leilah.world/
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 * In 2021, Weinraub joined the cast of Everything But The World, a short film created by the DIS Collective.

Leilah Weinraub (born 1979) is an American filmmaker, conceptual artist, and the former chief executive officer of the fashion brand Hood By Air. In 2018 she was named a Sundance Institute Art of Nonfiction Fellow.

Early Life and Education
Weinraub was born in the Koreatown section of Los Angeles to an African-American textile designer mother from Compton and a Jewish pediatrician father from Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Weinraub was a rebellious child, running away from home several times as a teenager. As a comprise with her parents, Weinraub went to an agricultural high school in Israel through an exchange program before applying and ultimately getting rejected from seminary school. Thus, Weinraub returned to the United States, legally emancipating herself from her parents soon after. After graduating from Antioch College in 2002 with a Bachelor's degree in Media and Social Change, she moved back to Los Angeles for a short while before attending graduate school at Bard College, where she received her Master of Fine Arts for film in 2011.

Career
Fresh from her return to the United States in 1998, Weinraub took a retail job at Maxfield's, a well-known fashion boutique on Melrose Avenue. There, Weinraub met American History X director Tony Kaye and sparked a conversation while showing him a piece of jewelry in the store. Soon after, Kaye made Weinraub his assistant on his project Lake of Fire in exchange for Kaye paying her Antioch Tuition.

'''Weinraub subsequently worked with other filmmakers in Hollywood during her 20s. Most notably, she worked with Steve Bognar and Julia Reichert on their film, A Lion in the House, shortly after the two won an Academy Award for their movie American Factory. '''

Shakedown (2018)
In 2002—at the age of 23—Weinraub began shooting Shakedown, a Black lesbian strip club in the Mid-City neighborhood of Los Angeles. Over the course of 6 years, Weinraub accumulated over 400 hours of footage. The resulting documentary feature, SHAKEDOWN, premiered at the 2018 Berlinale  and has subsequently been screened at various art institutions and film festivals including the Tate, London; ICA, London; MoMA PS1, New York; Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva; True/False Film Festival, Missouri; Sheffield Doc/Fest, England; Images Festival, Toronto; Frameline Film Festival, San Francisco and Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York. A shorter version was screened as part of the 2017 Whitney Biennial.

'''In March 2020, the film was released on the website Pornhub, the first non-pornographic film to be shown there. The film has more than 150,000 views with about 50,000 users either participating in or viewing chats. In April 2020, Shakedown was broadcasted by the Criterion Channel and Boiler Room Tv. '''

Hood by Air
In 2012, Weinraub began working on the critically acclaimed fashion label Hood By Air '''as a creative director in 2011, eventually taking on the title of chief executive officer in 2013. Hood By Air's spring/summer 2016 show “Galvanize,” directed by Weinraub, received fashion attention for their unique runway approach in which the opening model took the runway walking backwards. The collection won the CFDA Swarovski Award for Menswear and the LVMH Prize For Young Fashion Designers, an award consisting of a 300,000 Euro endowment and a year-long mentorship with the LVMH team. Weinraub's Shakedown also gave rise to a partnership with Pornhub for Hood By Air's spring/summer collection presented at New York Fashion Week in 2017. ''' Weinraub held her position with the company until the brand's hiatus in 2017. Weinraub was openly skeptical of the brand's celebrity endorsements and kept the company closed to outside investors.

Everything But The World (2021)
In 2021, Weinraub joined the cast of Everything But The World, a short film created by the DIS Collective. 'Originally conceived as a TV pilot, Everything But The World'', connects the repetitive movement's of today's warehouse workers to activities almost 10,000 years ago, when many of our ancestors switched from hunting and gathering to farming full-time. Weinraub plays the vital role of Shock Jock, a podcast host who also functions as the film's narrator, who helps convey the pieces overarching theme of challenging the post-Enlighment notions of "progress". Everything But The World challenges post-Enlightenment notions of “progress.” The film premiered at the Vienna Secession as a component of DIS's solo show: How To Become A Fossil. The exhibition, curated by Jeanette Pacher, was open from March 4th-June 12th, 2022 and was displayed with a site-specific installation and outdoor sculpture. '''

Group Exhibitions

 * March 04 -June 12, 2022: How To Become A Fossil, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria 
 * Nov 12, 2021- Feb 20, 2022: Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement: A Love Letter, a Wake-Up Call, or a Goodbye Song, Centre D'Art Contemporain Genéve, Geneva, Switzerland 
 * March 04 - April 25, 2021: Lean, Kunsthall Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway 
 * May 14 - June 30, 2020: ONLINE: Do It. Around The World, Sepentine South Gallery, Kensington, London 
 * June 28 - August 11, 2018: Putting Out, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, 127th St, Harlem, New York

Solo Exhibitions

 * Sep 16 - Oct 24, 2018: Leilah Weinraub: Shakedown, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, 127th St, Harlem, New York
 * April 04 - May 12, 2018: Leilah Weinraub: Shakedown, What Pipeline, Detrioit, Michigan