Lauren Wolkstein is an award-winning filmmaker who received her MFA in film directing from Columbia University's graduate film program and a BA in computer science and film from Duke University. ...Show More
Lauren Wolkstein is an award-winning filmmaker who received her MFA in film directing from Columbia University's graduate film program and a BA in computer science and film from Duke University. She was named one of the top twenty-five emerging filmmakers through The Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Independent Filmmaker Project's inaugural Emerging Visions program at the 2011 New York Film Festival. Lauren's Academy Award qualifying short films have traveled around the world garnering multiple awards. Her latest short film, The Strange Ones, co-directed with Christopher Radcliff, premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, and continues to screen at over one hundred film festivals, some of which have included Clermont-Ferrand, SXSW, Woodstock, Melbourne, Chicago, San Francisco, and BAMCinemaFest. The Strange Ones won Best Narrative Short at the Hamptons and Atlanta Film Festival. Cigarette Candy, her thesis film at Columbia University, received the Adrienne Shelly Award for Best Female Director, Plum Pictures Most Promising Filmmaker Award, Best Narrative Short at SXSW, Palm Springs International ShortFest, and several other festivals. As of fall 2011, her first feature film, Cigarette Candy, based on the award-winning short, is in development and has participated in IFP's highly selective Emerging Narrative and No Borders International Co-Production Market. In addition to Cigarette Candy, she has several other feature films in development, including an adaptation of David Foster Wallace's Little Expressionless Animals with producer Galt Niederhoffer. Besides her narrative film work, Lauren has also directed commercials for Gucci, and edited several ads for brands such as Juicy Couture, Dickies, and Diet Coke. Hide
