
Writer | Director
A.M.
Lukas
AWARDS
2018 - London Film Week
Nominee, Best Short
2015 - Los Angeles Film Festival
Winner, Audience Award
2019 - Sundance Film Festival
Nominee, Short Film Grand Jury Prize

A.M. Lukas is a writer-director currently developing a series with Showtime and VICE Studios based on her short film One Cambodian Family Please for My Pleasure. The multi-award-winning Sundance film aired on TNT as part of its Shatterbox series, has been viewed online and around the world over a million times, and has been championed by human rights organizations like the UNHCR. Lukas debuted as a feature director with the coming-of-age film Hollidaysburg which was embraced by film critics, the LA Times calling it "Smart, warm, and authentic, one of the better youth comedies of the last few years.” It was recently named #11 on Rotten Tomatoes’ list of the “20 Best Thanksgiving Movies of All Time."

SHORT FILM 2018
One Cambodian Family Please for My Pleasure
Starring:
Emily Mortimer
Written and Directed by
A.M. Lukas

FEATURE FILM 2014
Hollidaysburg
Starring:
Rachel Keller
Tobin Mitnick
Claire Chapelli
Written and Directed by
A.M. Lukas