She directed the Emmy Award-winning film The Janes, with Emma Pildes, and is the director and producer, with Carl Deal, of Trouble the Water, Citizen Koch, and the forthcoming "Steal This Story Please."
[2] The film also won the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award's Silver Baton, which honors outstanding public service audio and video reporting in television, radio and digital journalism.
[3] Lessin was a co-producer of Michael Moore's Where to Invade Next, Capitalism: A Love Story, Fahrenheit 9/11, winner of the Palme d'Or, and the supervising producer of Academy Award-winning Bowling for Columbine.
She began her career as associate producer of Charles Guggenheim's Oscar-nominated short film Shadows of Hate.
In television, Lessin's work as producer of the series The Awful Truth earned her two Emmy Award nominations and one arrest.