Lauren Finerman

Lauren is a film director and deeply emotional storyteller whose background as a professional dancer and circus performer informs her choreographic lens as a director, allowing movement between camera and talent to speak the unspoken.  

Lauren’s film work has screened all over the world and garnered numerous awards. Her most recent film Flower, starring world-renowned ballerina Misty Copeland, premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival, screened across Oscar-qualifying festivals, and was nominated for an NAACP Image award.

Her latest project, Breaking Life: Paris 2024, is an original documentary web series for the Olympic Channel about breakdancing becoming an Olympic sport. Lauren served as Showrunner and director on the series which can now be seen on HBO Max in europe.

She credits her ability to tell rhythmic stories on the screen to her time as the in-house filmmaker for the New York City Ballet, where she worked on projects including Jody Lee Lipes’ feature film Ballet 422 (Tribeca Film Festival/Magnolia Pictures) and Sarah Jessica Parker’s series City.Ballet (AOL.ON).

Lauren has brought kinetic movement into storytelling for brands like Square, Roku, Stitch Fix, British Airways and Honeylove.