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Hey, I'm Luann!
Portland, Oregon
My Projects

Nonprofit Web Series
Portland, Oregon• Series
Comedy, Drama
A girl on a mission in America's whitest city.
This project got the green light!

Season 1 of Gabby Antonio Smashes the Imperialist, White Supremacist, Capitalist Patriarchy!
Portland, Oregon• Series
Comedy
Web series about struggling to "do good" in the whitest city in America. Gabby wants to change the world but it's not quite happening.
This project got the green light!
Projects I'm Supporting

Drought
Wilmington, North Carolina• Film Feature
Comedy, Drama
The summer after high school, Sam searches for a better life for herself and younger brother with Autism.
This project got the green light!

Season 1 of Gabby Antonio Smashes the Imperialist, White Supremacist, Capitalist Patriarchy!
Portland, Oregon• Series
Comedy
Web series about struggling to "do good" in the whitest city in America. Gabby wants to change the world but it's not quite happening.
This project got the green light!

Emma Was Here
Medford, Oregon• Film Feature
Drama
A terminally-ill woman goes on a trip with friends before deciding whether she will go through with her choice of physician-assisted dying.
This project got the green light!

The Way It Goes
Shawnee, Johnson County• Film Feature
Comedy, Romantic Comedy
Sometimes life just doesn't go as planned.
This project got the green light!

The MisEducation of Bindu
Indianapolis, Indiana• Film Feature
Comedy, Drama
Thrust into American public school by her mother’s new marriage, a wide-eyed Indian teen teams up with a band geek to survive.
This project got the green light!

Lost Bayou
Lafayette, Louisiana• Film Feature
Drama, Family
A struggling addict ventures out into the Louisiana swamp to discover that her estranged faith healer father is hiding a troubling secret.
This project got the green light!

Little Evil Bookshop
Seattle, Washington• Film Feature
Comedy, Satire
When the world's most powerful occult leader visits a modest mystic bookshop, its owner must impress him at all costs.
This project got the green light!

Stormie
Santa Maria, California• Film Feature
Biography, Drama
An adopted Hispanic teenager looks for his birth family in an attempt to find his place of belonging.
This project got the green light!

Bring Me an Avocado
San Francisco, California• Film Feature
Drama
When a violent encounter leaves Robin in a coma, her family ventures to maintain normalcy for her children while managing their own grief.
This project got the green light!

A Room Full of Nothing
Austin, Texas• Film Feature
Adventure, Romance
In this Swiss Army Man meets Eternal Sunshine adventure an artistic couple's life takes a bizarre turn when they wake up alone in the world.
This project got the green light!
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nēar
Stockton, California• Film Feature
Crime, Drama
"nēar" follows 17-year-old Julian upon his escape from the hospital on Christmas Eve, the day which is literally the last day of his life.
This project got the green light!

The Place in Between
Austin, Texas• Film Feature
Comedy, Drama
What could possibly go wrong when a mom and her teenage daughter meet for the first time on a road trip across TX? . . . Everything.
This project got the green light!

I'll Be Around
Los Angeles, California• Film Feature
Drama, Comedy
Against the backdrop of a post-punk music festival, a handful of 30-somethings deal with a wide variety of social and philosophical issues
This project got the green light!

The Atavist
Pittsfield, Berkshire County• Film Feature
Adventure, Sci-Fi
A young woman travels to the past, but when the things she leaves alter history, she must get them back to save the future.
This project got the green light!

D.I.Y.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania• Film Feature
Comedy, LGBTQ
A queer couple is determined to tie the knot their own way.
This project got the green light!

Big Dog City
San Francisco, California• Film Feature
Drama, Other
Set within Bay Area art/slacker culture, we follow two characters as they weave across a place and identity which doesn't fit them anymore.
This project got the green light!

Palace
Bloomington, Indiana• Film Feature
Drama
The family-fractured lives of a stubborn mechanic, a retired widower, and a repressed college student intertwine at a bar in rural Indiana.
This project got the green light!

Girl Talk
New York City, New York• Film Short
Drama, LGBTQ
Girl Talk follows Mia, as she explores the complications of intimacy, coming to a head when she meets an intriguing lesbian couple.
This project got the green light!

Just Like The Men
Bellingham, Washington• Film Feature
Comedy, History
Two girls find a lost screenplay and decide to give history the middle finger.
This project got the green light!

The Blue Whale
Catoosa, Oklahoma• Film Feature
Teen, Drama
In 1980's rural Oklahoma a teenage boy meets a girl from California who helps him break out of his shell and learn the truth of his heritage
This project got the green light!

Fantastic Santa Monaco
Los Angeles, California• Film Feature
Drama, Satire
A film about a group of performance artists who are looking for love, connection and significance in Los Angeles.
This project got the green light!
Virtually
Los Angeles, California• Film Short
Romance, Sci-Fi
A woman struggling in a post-apocalyptic wasteland discovers a VR machine and finds love while repeating the same VR sunset over and over.
This project got the green light!

Interference
New York City, New York• Film Short
Drama, Thriller
A violent altercation between a police officer and a black man left one person dead. A couple passing by must decide what they believe.
This project got the green light!

Clementine
Portland, Oregon• Film Feature
Drama, LGBTQ
A heartbroken woman stows away to her estranged lover's lake house where she becomes entangled with a teenage girl.
This project got the green light!

All American Kids
New York City, New York• Series
Documentary, Family
Celebrating the many ways WE ARE ALL AMERICAN, this documentary/animated kids series transports young audiences across the country.
This project got the green light!

Self Portrait
New York City, New York• Film Short
Drama, Experimental
A young woman reflects on the authenticity of her parents marriage in a staged dinner scene revealing three individual perspectives.
This project got the green light!

Nonprofit Web Series
Portland, Oregon• Series
Comedy, Drama
A girl on a mission in America's whitest city.
This project got the green light!

More Than Only
Portland, Oregon• Film Feature
LGBTQ, Romantic Comedy
Because EVEYRONE deserves their happy after everything. LGBT romantic comedy that celebrates finding love and learning to love yourself
This project got the green light!

An Act of Terror
Charlotte, Mecklenburg County• Film Short
Drama, History
The true story of Virginia Christian, a 16-year-old African American girl accused of murder in the Jim Crow South.
This project got the green light!

Streetlights
Los Angeles, California• Film Short
Drama, Fantasy
A runaway 10-year-old kid meets a troubled teenager and street performer who teaches him some truths about life and survival in the streets.
This project got the green light!

LULU
Los Angeles, California• Film Short
Drama, LGBTQ
"I'm often silent when I'm screaming inside."
This project got the green light!

Her-POW! New Adventures of Vintage Comic Book Heroines!
Los Angeles, California• Series
Action, Other
All new live-action adventures from 3 heroines from the Golden Age of comic books: The Woman in Red, The Veiled Avenger, and Ghost Woman!
This project got the green light!

Half the Picture
Los Angeles, California• Film Feature
Documentary
HALF THE PICTURE is a feature documentary about working women directors in Hollywood.
This project got the green light!