Lena Rudnick is an award-winning filmmaker, artist, and story consultant based in Los Angeles. She holds an M.F.A. in Film Directing from Columbia University in New York City and has spent twenty years making space for unconventional stories in independent film and television. Her work is drawn to the hysterically dysfunctional — stories that probe the fraught, funny, and cosmic friction between her interior life and a society unraveling.

Her feature scripts have earned recognition from Slamdance, Austin Film Festival, Oaxaca, and Vancouver Women in Film & Television, and her films have screened at Lincoln Center, Miami International Film Festival, New York International Latino Film Festival, and St. Tropez to name a few. Her commissioned video art series for National Sawdust premiered on PBS.

Her feature Daddy’s Girl is in development with Emmy-nominated producer Reka Posta and was adapted for the stage by The Braid Theatre of Los Angeles. She recently wrapped a new comedy film, Just Kidding, and is currently in development on a TV series. Lena also works one-on-one with some of the industry’s top filmmakers — a script consultant who helps writers find the nerve of a story and follow it all the way through. Across genre and form, Lena’s work is unmistakable: female-driven, darkly funny, achingly human, and uncompromising in its vision.