Luchina Fisher

Luchina Fisher (she/her) is an Emmy®-nominated director, producer and writer whose work is at the intersection of race, gender and identity. Her latest film, the short documentary THE DADS, about five fathers of trans kids on a weekend fishing trip, premiered at SXSW and was acquired by Netflix. The film has been nominated for a 2024 Daytime Emmy® and received GLAAD’s Special Recognition Award. Her feature directorial debut MAMA GLORIA, about a Black transgender elder activist, was a 2022 GLAAD Media Award nominee and broadcast on PBS. Her current feature LOCKED OUT, about the barriers to Black homeownership, won Best Documentary Feature at the American Black Film Festival. Her short documentary TEAM DREAM, executive produced by Queen Latifah, was a finalist for The Wrap’s Shortlist and has won numerous festival jury awards.

Fisher’s latest project, about Black queer representation in music, was awarded the PitchBLACK Film Forum’s top prize. 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 Girls Doc Mafia, the Queen Collective, Women Make Movies, Athena Film Festival Doc Pitch, Firelight Media and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Fisher also teaches documentary filmmaking at Yale University.