LAUREN LUKE

I’m a filmmaker from Hawaiʻi. I’m based in Honolulu and New York.

Currently, I’m shadowing Director Ruben Fleischer on the production of Protecting Jared, a Netflix feature produced by Andy Samberg and Jason Momoa. I’ve worked in film development at Stay Gold Features and in public media at Firelight Media and Pacific Islanders in Communications. I’m a freelance Assistant Director, most recently serving as a 2nd AD on Hawaiʻi indie feature, Hotel Street (Dir. Chris Kahunahana).

As a part Hawaiian, Chinese, and second-generation Filipina filmmaker, I see filmmaking as a vessel of preservation—of culture, of place, of feeling—and strive to illuminate the beauty in transience.

I’ve made narrative and documentary films in this vein, most of which have won awards at festivals across the country. My thesis film, Son’s Are Not Earthbound, is on its festival run. You can watch my last film, Perlita, here.

I graduated from NYU with a B.F.A in Film and Television Production in 2025, and minored in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Studies and the Business of Entertainment and Media Technologies.

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