About Lauren Finerman
Lauren Finerman is a writer/director working at the intersection of narrative, documentary, and movement-based storytelling. Her work blends bold visual poetry with emotionally resonant narratives that explore identity, power, and transformation.
She is the director, and showrunner of Breaking Life: Paris 2024, a documentary series produced for the Olympic Channel, now streaming on HBO Max Europe. The series, which follows the rise of breakdancing to Olympic sport, recently received a Webby Award 2025.
Her film Flower, starring Misty Copeland, premiered at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival and was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Her circus-set drama Paper Birds has earned international acclaim, with the short winning multiple awards and the feature-length script recently optioned. Her feminist thriller Silhouette, produced by Vanishing Angle and Tidetivity Studios, is slated to premiere in 2025.
Lauren is currently in production on two feature documentaries: Montaño, chronicling Olympic medalist Alysia Montaño’s fight for gender and racial equity in sports, and Womxn Walk, a powerful portrait of systemic injustice facing women in the U.S. prison system.
Earlier in her career, Lauren worked as a producer, including developing an untitled feature with Tribeca Studios and executive producing the SXSW-selected comedy pilot This Isn’t Me, which won Best Comedy Series at HBO’s Catalyst Festival. She credits her ability to tell rhythmic stories on 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).