Lara Hill is a writer, director, and assistant director based in New Orleans. A native of Natchitoches, LA, she graduated cum laude from Louisiana Tech University with a degree in chemical engineering. Though pursuing a very different career path at the time, Lara fell in love with film and began writing as a film critic throughout high school and college.
While working as an engineer in southeast Arkansas, she began producing, directing, and writing short films for the Louisiana Film Prize in Shreveport, LA. Her short film Invitation, which she wrote and directed, premiered as a Top 20 official selection at the festival. She also wrote the screenplay for Promises of Snow, another Louisiana Film Prize Top 20 selection. Her films have been showcased and awarded at festivals across the United States, including Omaha Film Festival, Deep in the Heart Film Festival, El Dorado Film Festiva, and Arkansas Cinema Society’s FILMLAND.
In 2021, she left engineering to begin working in film & television production in the Louisiana entertainment industry. She was the 2nd assistant director for the Shreveport-produced horror feature #ChadGetsTheAxe and 2nd 2nd assistant director for the Natchitoches-produced feature The Dirty South. Her other credits include Big George Foreman, Queer Eye, Big Freedia Means Business, and the upcoming Amazon docuseries The Money Game.
Lara's journey of self-discovery has gone hand-in-hand with her career in the film industry. Her work is interested in moments of vulnerability, self-knowledge, and how relationships are able to change, grow, or form as a result. She is passionate about queer storytelling and illuminating the experiences of the LGBTQ+ community through film, and hopes to see more space made for trans and gender non-conforming people to join the industry and share their perspectives. The script for her next short film, a romantic drama about a marriage in transition, was named the Best Short Screenplay at the 2024 Omaha Film Festival. In all things, she aims to be true to herself.
