Luis Ferrer

Luis (Lou) Ferrer is an award-winning director with scripts optioned by legendary filmmaker, Spike Lee, and Netflix, among others. The New York Times called Ferrer's feature directorial debut, MIA, a "humanely observed and tenderly acted two-hander," and says of Ferrer, "The writer-director Luis Ferrer has guts ... the kind it takes to make a deeply unsettling [film] that embraces being small and speaks in silence and whispers, not screams." MIA premiered at New York Cinefest in 2025, earning all major nominations and a win for outstanding director before making it's streaming debut on AppleTV+ and Amazon Prime Video. Ferrer studied writing, directing, and producing at the American Film Institute and at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts where he also taught and penned several scripts under the tutelage of Spike Lee and Oscar-nominated writer, Alec Sokolow ("Toy Story"). And, Ferrer's earlier feature script, "Motherland," is in development with Jan Phillipp Weyl, director of the International Oscar entry "Running Against The Wind." Luis Ferrer is a former HBO and NBC executive and a decorated combat veteran of the war in Afghanistan where he served with the Army's 35th Infantry Regiment, Recon Scout/Sniper Platoon. He lives in both New York and California with his wife Eden and five-year-old son, Jack.