Today we’d like to introduce you to Lucy Luna.
Thanks for sharing your story with us Lucy. So, let’s start at the beginning and we can move on from there.
I grew up in a small town in Mexico called Morelia, and I always dreamed about making movies. I don’t come from a wealthy family, money was always a difficult and stressful topic in the house, yet my mom always told me that my dream would become my reality one day. She bought me my first screenwriting book and she would watch movies with me all the time. Back when Blockbuster was a thing, my mom always made sure to allocate some money to rent at least one movie per week.
I continued growing up and in Morelia there was no film school at the time, so I enrolled to a Digital Art degree which had a little bit of video editing and writing, but it wasn’t enough for me, so I started writing and making films. “Diez Corazones Rotos” and “Cuevas” were two short films that I made with a low budget, I worked with talented artists and both short films were selected on film festivals.
So I wanted more. I wanted to do more and do it better so I set myself the goal to study abroad. After years of saving money, I was admitted to a few film schools and I ended up moving to LA to study Screenwriting at the New York Film Academy. Professional education changed my life. I made another short film, “We’re All Here”, which found more success in festivals and was even screened at the Morelia International Film Festival, my hometown.
My first feature script, “Sophie & Valentina”, collected multiple screenwriting awards and got me the HBOAccess and ScreenCraft Fellowships. After that, I signed with Brillstein Entertainment Partners and APA. Now I write for two TV Shows: “Two Sentence Horror Stories” (The CW), and “All Rise” (CBS).
Overall, has it been relatively smooth? If not, what were some of the struggles along the way?
It definitely hasn’t been easy. The industry itself is a tough one, breaking in is a challenge on its own. Initially, I remember managers passing on me because though they liked my work, I didn’t have a work visa yet, and thus they wouldn’t be able to get me work. Moving to a completely different country, away from family, knowing no one, seeing your money running out while you work on writing good material in a different language, so you can be seen by managers, agents, producers and then finally start your career.
It can get exhausting, but all those challenges were also my biggest motivators because I turned them into goals; get my visa, network, see my family again, get financially stable, improve my English, get my dream manager, get agents, become a full time working writer.
I’m not saying it’s easy because it wasn’t, but choosing to see those “obstacles” as goals completely helped me achieve them.
We’d love to hear more about your work and what you are currently focused on. What else should we know?
Lucy Luna is a Mexican writer living in Los Angeles.
Lucy’s multi-award-winning feature script, Sophie & Valentina, has led her to the beginning of her professional journey, having won the 2019 HBOAccess Writing Fellowship, the ScreenCraft Fellowship, and placing on the Young & Hungry List.
Her written and directed short horror film, We’re All Here, found success in the festival circuit garnering six awards to date. She penned a horror feature script for Mexican producer Gerardo Gática and is currently a writer on CW’s Two Sentence Horror Stories and CBS’ All Rise.
If you had to go back in time and start over, would you have done anything differently?
Nothing.
I am glad I went through every hardship I did. I honestly learned that I’m way stronger than I thought I was.
Contact Info:
- Website: www.lucyluna.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lucy.luna/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HiLucyLuna/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/LucyLuna
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