Luisa Conlon
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Luisa Conlon is a documentary filmmaker and cinematographer based between New York and Los Angeles.
Her work has been published with The Atlantic, PBS NewsHour, VICE.com, Vogue, NPR & StoryCorps. Her short documentary 'Leaving Iraq for a Life in America' (co-directed with Hanna Miller and Lacy Jane Roberts) was featured in THE ATLANTIC SELECTS, a series of short films curated by The Atlantic Magazine.
Her short documentary WE BECAME FRAGMENTS will be published with the New York Times Op-Docs in Spring 2018.
Luisa's work has been supported by the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, The Filmmaker Fund and Canon. She is a recipient of the Jerry Jensen Overall Graduate Scholarship Award from the NATAS NorCal Branch, the 2016 Robert Whittington Award for Exceptional Reporting from UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, and a Mark of Excellence Award from the Society of Professional Journalists.
Luisa received her BFA in Film & TV from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and her Masters in Journalism from UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. She has been a member of the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective since 2012.
