Luke Lorentzen is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker and lecturer in Stanford University’s Department of Art and Art History. His most recent film, A STILL SMALL VOICE, follows a chaplain completing a year-long hospital residency. The film won the U.S. Documentary Best Director Award at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, was listed as one of the best ten films of the year by the New York Times, and was shortlisted for the Best Documentary Oscar.

Luke’s previous film MIDNIGHT FAMILY (2019), which tells the story of a family-run ambulance business in Mexico City, was also shortlisted for the Best Documentary Oscar after winning over 35 awards from film festivals and organizations around the world including a Special Jury Award for Cinematography at the Sundance Film Festival, Best Editing from the International Documentary Association, and the Golden Frog for Best Documentary from Camerimage.

Luke’s other work as a director and cinematographer includes the Netflix original series, LAST CHANCE U (2019), which won an Emmy for Outstanding Serialized Sports Documentary.

Production of “Midnight Family”
A Still Small Voice, 2023 Poster. Directed by Luke Lorentzen.
A Still Small Voice, 2023 Poster. Directed by Luke Lorentzen and winner of the U.S. Documentary Best Director Award at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival.

Experimenting with the ways in which non-fiction stories are told, his films take viewers into hidden worlds to meet otherwise overlooked, hard working people. Luke is a graduate of Stanford University’s Department of Art and Art History. His interest in the documentary form was sparked in his teens when he took a workshop for young artists at Maine Media Workshops.

With Kellen Quinn, Luke is a co-founder of the independent production company Hedgehog Films.

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