Lucas Guilkey | Documentary Filmmaker & Journalist

The Strike (2024) — Director/Producer
The Strike is a feature documentary that tells the story of a generation of Californian men who endured decades of solitary confinement and, against all odds, launched the largest hunger strike in U.S. history. Read more in The New York Times, LA Times, NPR, and more. It is now streaming and broadcasting on Independent Lens (PBS) and on tour nationwide.

Aftershock (2022) — Story Producer
Aftershock is a Peabody, Dupont, and Sundance award-winning, Emmy-nominated documentary that follows two bereaved fathers, who, after the preventable deaths of their partners during childbirth, galvanize activists, birth-workers, and physicians to reckon with one of the most pressing American crises of our time — U.S. maternal mortality. Streaming on Hulu.

What Happened to Dujuan Armstrong? (2019) — Director/Producer
Winner of Best Documentary at the 2020 BAFTA student film awards, this film explores the mysterious death of one young man, his mother's quest for truth and justice, and the opaqueness and power of jails and sheriffs in the United States. whathappenedfilm.com

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