Luchina Fisher is an award-winning director, writer and producer whose work is at the intersection of race, gender and identity. Her feature directorial debut Mama Gloria was a 2022 GLAAD Media Award nominee and broadcast on PBS. Her latest film, the short documentary The Dads, about five fathers of trans kids on a weekend fishing trip, premiered at SXSW and was acquired by Netflix. Her short documentary Team Dream, executive produced by Queen Latifah, has won numerous festival jury awards and aired on BET. Her second feature Locked Out, about the barriers to Black homeownership, premiered at the Freep Festival where it won the “Shine the Light” Award, and is currently on the circuit. Fisher was recently awarded the PitchBLACK Film Forum’s top prize for her new project about Black queer representation in music. She is the director of two scripted short films and has written and produced several nationally broadcast documentaries, including two episodes of the History channel series with President Bill Clinton. Her work has been supported by Black Public Media, the Field Foundation, Sisters in Cinema, Brown Girl Doc Mafia, the Queen Collective, the Athena Film Festival’s Works in Progress Program, Firelight Media and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She also teaches documentary filmmaking at Yale University.

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PROGRAM AFFILIATION

Spark Fund

COHORT YEAR

2022

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@luchinafisher