Luke Lorentzen (director, producer, editor, cinematographer) is an Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker. His last film, A Still Small Voice (2023), follows a chaplain completing a yearlong hospital residency. The film won the U.S. Documentary Best Director Award at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, was listed as one of the 10 best films of the year by The New York Times, and was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Luke’s previous film, Midnight Family (2019), was also shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, after winning more than 35 awards from film festivals and organizations around the world, including a Special Jury Award for Cinematography at the Sundance Film Festival, Best Editing from the International Documentary Association, and the Golden Frog for Best Documentary from Camerimage. In 2024, the film was adapted into a 10-part fictionalized series for Apple TV+. Luke’s other work as a director and cinematographer includes the Netflix original series Last Chance U (2019), which won an Emmy for Outstanding Serialized Sports Documentary. With Kellen Quinn, Luke is a co-founder of the independent production company Hedgehog Films.
Kellen Quinn (producer) is a twice Oscar-nominated producer whose credits include Garrett Bradley’s Time (Oscar-nominated; Sundance 2020 winner of the Directing Award, US Documentary Competition), Luke Lorentzen’s A Still Small Voice (shortlisted for Best Documentary Feature Oscar; Sundance 2023 winner of the Directing Award, US Documentary Competition), Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie’s Sugarcane (Oscar nominated; Sundance 2024 winner of the Directing Award, US Documentary Competition), David Osit’s Predators (Sundance 2025), Robie Flores’s The In Between (SXSW 2024), Lorentzen’s Midnight Family (shortlisted for Documentary Feature Oscar; Sundance 2019 winner of Special Jury Award for Cinematography, US Documentary Competition), Asher Levinthal’s Shaken (DOC NYC 2023), Noah Hutton’s In Silico (DOC NYC 2020), Daniel Hymanson’s So Late So Soon (True/False 2020), and Viktor Jakovleski’s Brimstone & Glory (True/False 2017; aired on POV). Kellen received Doc10’s Vanguard Award in 2025 and was selected for the Dear Producer Award in 2023 and DOC NYC’s 40 Under 40 class in 2020. In 2017 and 2018, he participated in the Sundance Documentary Creative Producing Lab and Fellowship. In 2016, he was among six producers selected for Impact Partners’ Documentary Producers Fellowship. He runs the production company Hedgehog Films with Luke Lorentzen.
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