From the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, Lauren Lukow is a Swiss-American film producer based in Los Angeles with 10+ years of work in fiction, animation, documentary, commercial and branded content, and podcast production.

Lauren's latest short, MARA HAS THREE JOBS IN SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO, premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival, and had a theatrical window of distribution playing in select theaters in front of BARBIE and BLUE BEETLE. Her award-winning films have screened at festivals around the world including Seattle, Palm Springs ShortFest, Nashville, RiverRun, Sarasota, Pan African, Hollyshorts, and LALIFF, among others, played on reputable online platforms such as Omeleto, and been supported by organizations including Lena Waithe's Hillman Grad, Wavelength Productions, the Future of Film is Female, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

For nearly six years, Lauren worked for the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program, recently as their Manager of Producing and Artist Support. In this role she oversaw the Producers Track and provided year-round creative and strategic support to 40+ fiction feature projects annually, helping to advance these projects from script stage to distribution. Films championed during Lauren’s tenure include A THOUSAND AND ONE, CASSANDRO, COSTA BRAVA LEBANON, FANCY DANCE, HONK FOR JESUS. SAVE YOUR SOUL., MUTT, NANNY, NINE DAYS, THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MAGICAL NEGROES, and WILD INDIAN. Before Sundance, Lauren was on the development team at Pixar Animation Studios where she supported their in-house filmmakers in the earliest phases of their creative incubation process for features and shorts such as SOUL, LUCA, and PURL.

Currently, Lauren continues to consult for Sundance while independently producing across film and media. Lauren is a 2024 Film Independent Project Involve Producing Fellow, a 2024 NYU Production Lab Development Studio Fellow, and presently serves on the Board for the University of Virginia’s Entertainment Club, her alma mater.