LUISA CONLON is an Emmy Award-winning documentary director and cinematographer who has earned recognition for her immersive vérité filmmaking.
In 2018, Luisa directed the award-winning documentary We Became Fragments for the New York Times Op-Docs, which screened at a dozen film festivals including DOCNYC, AFI DOCS, SFFILM, as well at the 2018 United Nations General Assembly. The film was nominated for a 2018 International Documentary Association Award. Her 2021 film Senior Prom was released and broadcast nationally by PBS/Independent Lens and was earned her a second International Documentary Association Award for Best Short. She is currently in post-production on Football Americano, an international documentary feature film executive produced by Fisher Steven’s production company Highly Flammable, along with Exile Content and Muck Media.
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: The Series (National Geographic). She most recently served as Director of Photography on Cristina Costantini’s upcoming KAROL G documentary for Netflix.
Luisa grew up between New York and Paris, and currently lives in Brooklyn. She is is a two-time Livingston Awards 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