Talent Guide
Adina Luo
- Discipline:Director
- Program Year:Documentary Lab 2023
Bio
Adina Luo is a filmmaker and media executive. Most recently, Adina produced Black Mothers Love & Resist (dir Débora Souza Silva), a feature length documentary following the mothers behind Black Lives Matter, with support from Sundance, Tribeca, IDA, SFFILM, HotDocs, among others. Adina is also the director, writer, and producer of The Kids Table, which screened at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and won at the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival. As Director of Strategy at Participant, she has supported impact driven films like Judas and the Black Messiah, John Lewis Good Trouble, and My Name is Pauli Murray. Adina’s work has been featured in VICE, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Blavity, The Verge. Adina studied business at the Wharton School and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania.