Luchina Fisher

Luchina Fisher (born December 19, 1966) is an American journalist, Emmy Award-winning film director, writer and producer. Her works are related to race, gender and identity (LGBTQ+). She also teaches documentary filmmaking at Yale University

Luchina graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a BA in journalism. She also attended the University of Bristol for Film and Television. She began her career as a journalist writing for the Miami Herald and People magazine.

Personal Luchina is a woman of color and as of 2022, is mother of three. 2022: Team Dream, short documentary about two women of color: Ann Smith, who is in her 80s, and Madeline Murphy Rabb, who is in her 70s. After their retirements, they decided to take up competitive swimming. 2023: The Dads, short documentary about five dads of trans and LGBTQ kids on a weekend fishing trip together with the father of Matthew Shepard, the young man who was killed at the University of Wyoming 2017: Birthright: A War Story, feature documentary that "examines how women are being jailed, physically violated and even put at risk of dying as a radical movement takes control of whether, when and how women will bear children" 2013: Danger World, "scripted short about a 13-year-old girl and her grandfather, hiding out in a wooded cabin after a plague, meeting the challenge of their lives when her birthday trip to a trading post goes horribly awry"

Awards 2024: Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Short Form Program for The Dads Best Documentary Short prize at the Pan African Film Festival for Team Dream, also Winner of the Audience Choice Award at the 2022 Chicago International Film Festival and Best of Fest Jury Mention. Best Documentary Short, TIDE Film Festival. Golden Thumb Award, 2023 EbertFest Best of Fest, CineOdyssey Film Festival; Best Documentary Jury Award, Teaneck International; Black Lens Award, Milwaukee Film Festival for Mama Gloria