LUISA CONLON is an Emmy Award-winning documentary director and cinematographer known for immersive, character-driven vérité filmmaking.
Her directorial work includes SENIOR PROM (2021), a portrait of the LA LGBT Center's retirement community that was acquired by Independent Lens and nominated for an International Documentary Association Award. Her earlier film WE BECAME FRAGMENTS (New York Times Op-Docs, 2018) followed a young Syrian refugee's journey to Canada, earning an IDA Award nomination, a screening at the United Nations General Assembly, and distribution across the international festival circuit and U.S. school systems. She is currently directing FOOTBALL AMERICANO, a feature documentary produced by Fisher Stevens' Highly Flammable alongside Muck Media and Exile Content.
As a cinematographer, Luisa's credits span award-winning films across major platforms — among them Isabel Castro's MIJA (Disney Original Documentaries), Hannah Olson's Emmy-nominated THE LAST CRUISE (HBO), the Emmy-winning SCIENCE FAIR (National Geographic / Muck Media), and most recently KAROL G: MAÑANA FUE MUY BONITO (Netflix), directed by Cristina Costantini.
Raised between New York and Paris, Luisa is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, a two-time Livingston Award finalist, and a Pulitzer Center grantee. She is based in Brooklyn.
Get in touch: luisaconlon@gmail.com