Producer, Keep the Lights On
Nominated for: Best Feature

Lucas Joaquin produced the second unit shoot for the feature Beasts of the Southern Wild (dir. Benh Zeitlin), which premiered in competition at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative Feature. It also won the Camera D’Or for Best First Feature at the Cannes Film Festival. It is currently in release throughout the world.

Joaquin has also produced several acclaimed short films including Last Address (dir. Ira Sachs), which screened at the 2011 Venice Biennale, the 2010 Sundance and Berlin International Film Festivals, and is now in the permanent collection at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In collaboration with Parts and Labor, he has also produced several music videos for artists like the Apples In Stereo and Trentemøller.

Upcoming projects include Ira Sachs’s Love Is Strange, Zachary Wigon’s The Heart Machine, and Ron Eyal and Eleanor Burke’s Bright As Day, for which Joaquin was awarded the Sundance Creative Producing Fellowship in 2012.