Luchina Fisher

Luchina Fisher (she/her) is an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker, speaker and educator. Her short documentary THE DADS, about five fathers of trans kids on a weekend fishing trip with the father of Matthew Shepard, won the 2024 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Program and GLAAD’s Special Recognition Award. The film was executive produced by Dwyane Wade and acquired by Netflix. Her directorial debut, MAMA GLORIA, about a Black trans elder activist, was nominated for a 2022 GLAAD Media Award and broadcast on PBS. Her latest feature THE DADS, a follow-up to the Emmy-winning short, premiered at SXSW in March. Luchina is also the director of the award-winning short documentary TEAM DREAM, executive produced by Queen Latifah, and co-director of the award-winning feature documentary LOCKED OUT, about the barriers to Black homeownership. Her latest project, about the unsung history of Black queer presence in music was the winner of the 2023 PitchBLACK Film Forum and has support from Firelight Media. Luchina began her career as a journalist, writing for the Miami Herald, People, The Oprah Magazine and ABC News, and is a 2026 inductee into the North Carolina Media and Journalism Hall of Fame for her social justice filmmaking. Her film work explores the intersection of race, gender and identity and has appeared on Netflix, Hulu, PBS, History, ESPN, and BET and screened in theaters, classrooms, festivals and companies around the world. Her work has been supported by Chicken & Egg, the Gotham, Firelight Media, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Dok Leipzig, Black Public Media, the Field Foundation, Sisters in Cinema, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, the Queen Collective and Women Make Movies. Luchina is a member of the Television Academy and serves on the board of New York Women in Film and Television. She teaches filmmaking at Yale and Fairfield University.