Lauren Loesberg is a Jewish-American filmmaker based in Los Angeles and a graduate of Northwestern University. Her work has been recognized by the Student Academy Awards, Film Independent, the Chicago International Film Festival, and more than eighty film festivals around the world. Her debut feature, Year One, was listed by IndieWire for their 2024 Sundance Wish List and premiered in competition at the Geena Davis’s Bentonville Film Festival in 2024. Year One is also the recipient of the ReFrame Stamp, an initiative of the Sundance Institute and Women in Film to highlight films that achieve gender parity in front of and behind the camera.

Lauren can also be found among the crew of more than thirty films and television shows, including 2020 Academy Award Winner The Neighbor’s Window and foreign-language feature Redemption (TIFF 2018). She most recently worked as director & producer’s assistant on Season 2 of acclaimed television series Tokyo Vice.