Luke Lorentzen

Directing

Luke Lorentzen

Born

1993-01-01 (33)

Known for

Directing

Credits

14 titles

Luke Lorentzen is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker. His last film, A Still Small Voice (2023), follows a chaplain completing a yearlong hospital residency. The film won the U.S. Documentary Best Director Award at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, was listed as one of the 10 best films of the year by the New York Times, and was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Luke’s previous film, Midnight Family (2019), was also shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, after winning more than 35 awards from film festivals and organizations around the world, including a Special Jury Award for Cinematography at the Sundance Film Festival, Best E…

Known for

Behind the camera

Boatbuilders poster
NR

Over the course of 16 months, at the head of a remote harbor in Maine, the workers of the Brooklin Boat Yard meticulously build a 56-foot wooden sailboat. As the seasons change and the vessel takes shape, director Luke Lorentzen immerses the viewer in a close-knit community rooted in time-honored craft, shared joys, and mutual respect.

Boatbuilders

2026

Boatbuilders poster
NR

Over the course of 16 months, at the head of a remote harbor in Maine, the workers of the Brooklin Boat Yard meticulously build a 56-foot wooden sailboat. As the seasons change and the vessel takes shape, director Luke Lorentzen immerses the viewer in a close-knit community rooted in time-honored craft, shared joys, and mutual respect.

Boatbuilders

2026

Midnight Family poster
7.0

In Mexico City's wealthiest neighborhoods, the Ochoa family runs a for-profit ambulance, competing with other unlicensed EMTs for patients in need of urgent care. In this cutthroat industry, they struggle to keep their financial needs from compromising the people in their care.

Midnight Family

2019

Midnight Family poster
7.0

In Mexico City's wealthiest neighborhoods, the Ochoa family runs a for-profit ambulance, competing with other unlicensed EMTs for patients in need of urgent care. In this cutthroat industry, they struggle to keep their financial needs from compromising the people in their care.

Midnight Family

2019

Midnight Family poster
7.0

In Mexico City's wealthiest neighborhoods, the Ochoa family runs a for-profit ambulance, competing with other unlicensed EMTs for patients in need of urgent care. In this cutthroat industry, they struggle to keep their financial needs from compromising the people in their care.

Midnight Family

2019

A Still Small Voice poster
3.0

An aspiring hospital chaplain begins a yearlong residency in spiritual care, only to discover that to successfully tend to her patients, she must look deep within herself.

A Still Small Voice

2023

A Still Small Voice poster
3.0

An aspiring hospital chaplain begins a yearlong residency in spiritual care, only to discover that to successfully tend to her patients, she must look deep within herself.

A Still Small Voice

2023

A Still Small Voice poster
3.0

An aspiring hospital chaplain begins a yearlong residency in spiritual care, only to discover that to successfully tend to her patients, she must look deep within herself.

A Still Small Voice

2023

No artwork available
NR

Although Santa Cruz del Islote is just three acres large, it is one of the world's most densely populated islands. A fisherman and a ten-year-old boy live peacefully within this Colombian community, but struggle with their isolation as resources become scarce.

Santa Cruz del Islote

2014

No artwork available
NR

Although Santa Cruz del Islote is just three acres large, it is one of the world's most densely populated islands. A fisherman and a ten-year-old boy live peacefully within this Colombian community, but struggle with their isolation as resources become scarce.

Santa Cruz del Islote

2014

No artwork available
NR

Although Santa Cruz del Islote is just three acres large, it is one of the world's most densely populated islands. A fisherman and a ten-year-old boy live peacefully within this Colombian community, but struggle with their isolation as resources become scarce.

Santa Cruz del Islote

2014

New York Cuts poster
NR

New York Cuts explores six barbershops and hair salons throughout the cultural enclaves of New York City. Touching on themes of ethnicity, class, and community, conversations between barbers and clients are observed and intertwined in this portrait of urban multiculturalism.

New York Cuts

2015

New York Cuts poster
NR

New York Cuts explores six barbershops and hair salons throughout the cultural enclaves of New York City. Touching on themes of ethnicity, class, and community, conversations between barbers and clients are observed and intertwined in this portrait of urban multiculturalism.

New York Cuts

2015

New York Cuts poster
NR

New York Cuts explores six barbershops and hair salons throughout the cultural enclaves of New York City. Touching on themes of ethnicity, class, and community, conversations between barbers and clients are observed and intertwined in this portrait of urban multiculturalism.

New York Cuts

2015