Virginia Lee Hunter is an award winning photo-journalist who’s career began in Los Angeles in the late eighties working for the venerable LA Weekly. Assignments took her into homes of LA’s most unique, off beat talents, and into back alleys capturing the most down trodden during the beginning of the meth crisis. During her tenure, she also covered the LA Riots and several of the natural disasters during the 90’s. Beyond the Weekly’s assignments she also worked for labor organizations and environmental groups such as Greenpeace, and other various media, both nationally and internationally.

Hunter transitioned to film making with her first documentary CARNY in 2006, a collaboration with Canadian filmmaker Alison Murray. CARNY was inspired by Hunter’s photo book,CARNY: Americana on the Midway, published by Umbrage Press. She has worked on a number of documentaries, ‘Fambul Tok', ‘The Source’, and‘Folk’. ‘Tumbling from the Mountain of Truth; the art of Anselm Spring’ is Hunter’s first solo film, about German artist Anselm Spring who lives in remote part of Utah.

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