Luke Willis is a Los Angeles based writer and director originally from Jacksonville, FL. Luke comes to filmmaking after a 20-year career in the theater as an actor and as a classical ballet dancer for the San Francisco Ballet. After retiring from the stage in 2014 he returned to school to study his other great passion, filmmaking. His first job after completing USC film school was working on the documentary Gay Chorus Deep South, which won the Audience Award at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. His own award-winning short films have been met with great success in the US, Canada, and the UK, including multiple sell-out screenings at BFI Flare Film Festival and sell-out screenings hosted by Outfest for National Coming Out Day. Luke is committed to stories of hope and healing.