Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, Lauren Luke is a part Hawaiian, Chinese, and second-generation Filipina filmmaker whose work is deeply shaped by her home and multicultural upbringing. She sees filmmaking as a vessel of preservation—of culture, of place, of feeling—and strives to illuminate the beauty in transience. Her documentary and narrative films have received multiple awards and accolades, including the top prize at NYU’s New Visions, New Voices Festival for Perlita, a tribute to her late Filipina Lola and a tender meditation on grief and remembrance, a theme that continues to anchor her work. Lauren graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts with a B.F.A. in Film and Television Production along with minors in Business of Entertainment, Media, and Technology, and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Studies.