Luchina Fisher is an award-winning director, writer, and producer whose work is at the intersection of race, gender and identity. Her feature directorial debut MAMA GLORIA is a 2022 GLAAD Media Award nominee, won numerous festival jury awards, and made its broadcast debut on World channel and PBS. Her recent short documentary TEAM DREAM won the Audience Choice Award for Best Short Film at Chicago International Film Festival and Best Documentary at the Pan African and TIDE film festivals and just aired on BET. Her latest short documentary THE DADS, about five dads of trans kids on a weekend fishing trip, premiered at SXSW and is currently on the festival circuit. Her new feature documentary LOCKED OUT, which she co-directed about the barriers to Black homeownership, will premiere later this month at the Freep Festival. Fisher is also the director of two scripted short films and has written and produced several nationally broadcast documentaries. Her work has been supported by Black Public Media, the Field Foundation, Sisters in Cinema, Brown Girl Doc Mafia, the Queen Collective, the Athena Film Festival’s Works in Progress Program, Firelight Media and the National Endowment for the Humanities. She also teaches documentary filmmaking at Yale University.