LUISA CONLON is an Emmy Award-winning documentary director and cinematographer who has earned recognition for her immersive vérité filmmaking.
She directed the 2021 film SENIOR PROM that brought audiences into the heart of the LA LGBT Center’s retirement community. The film was acquired by Independent Lens and nominated for a 2021 International Documentary Association Award. Her 2018 film WE BECAME FRAGMENTS (New York Times Op-Docs) followed the journey of a young Syrian refugee to Canada, and screened across the international festival circuit, in schools across the United States, and at a special screening at the 2018 United Nations General Assembly . The film was nominated for a 2018 International Documentary Association Award. She is currently in post-production on FOOTBALL AMERICANO, a documentary feature film from Executive Producer Fisher Stevens (Highly Flammable), Muck Media, and Exile Content.
Luisa is also an acclaimed documentary cinematographer whose most recent credits include Isabel Castro’s MIJA (Disney Original Documentaries), Hannah Olson’s Emmy-nominated THE LAST CRUISE (HBO) and Muck Media’s Emmy-winning SCIENCE FAIR (National Geographic). She most recently served as Director of Photography on Cristina Costantini’s upcoming Netflix film MAÑANA FUE MUY BONITO, about KAROL G.
Luisa grew up between New York and Paris, and currently lives in Brooklyn. She is is a two-time Livingston Award finalist, a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, and a Pulitzer Center grantee.
Get in touch: luisaconlon@gmail.com