about
Meet a filmmaker who has received the most impressive title of “alien of extraordinary ability” by U.S. Immigration - that’s me. I’m still working on being recognized as a human, though.
Lorena Lourenço is an award-winning director, writer and producer from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and a USC School of Cinematic Arts alum. She is passionate about telling stories from marginalized perspectives that highlight cultural identity, the immigrant experience and female strength (though she barely works out).
Her short Muy Gay Too Mexicano has been selected for competition at Outfest, Inside Out, LALIFF, Out on Film, Official Latino FF and LADFF and is streaming on HBOmax. Her pilot Sula and I was selected for the Orchard Project’s episodic lab and is being produced by Mucho Más Media. Her pilot script Divine Period was a semi-finalist in the Series-Fest Women’s Writing Competition. Yas Kween, the webseries she directed starring Joy Sunday (Wednesday) and Salina Estitties (RuPaul's Drag Race), is available to stream on Revry. Finally, the internationally award-winning short she wrote, directed and edited, titled Joy, investigates the experiences of an immigrant woman of color in Trump’s America.
She has directed and/or produced with talents such as Troian Bellisario (Pretty Little Liars), renowned jazz performer Kamasi Washington, Emily Osment (Hannah Montana), Ivy George (Big Little Lies) and Salina EsTitties (who should win RuPaul’s Drag Race). Lorena has also worked in production for Tribeca and Sundance nominated documentaries as well as in scripted television for Netflix, HBO, Amazon, and others.
Most recently, Lorena is in post production for two shorts (one of which was written by Emmy-nominee Pratima Mani) and in development for the indie feature What Ever Happened to Rosa Elena? written by Outfest lab alum, Jorge Molina, which is a queer telenovela horror comedy. The film has been selected for the NALIP Media Market as well as the Inside Out Film Forum.
If you think any of the above information helps her claim to a status of humanity you can notify U.S. immigration’s human branch.
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