Lana Wilson

Lana Wilson is an Emmywinning and twotime Spirit Awardnominated writer and director Transformative quests for meaning and humanity connect her diverse body of work across documentaries short films and episodic Her most recent film the Taylor Swift documentary Miss Americana 2020 was the opening night film of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and is a Netflix Original Miss Americana was a New York Times Critics Pick an IndieWire Critics Pick and was named one of the Five Best Documentaries of the Year by the National Board of Review Wilsons previous feature film The Departure 2017 about a punkturnedpriest in Japan was critically acclaimed for being a poetic profound and moving exploration of what makes life worth living The Departure premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2017 played at festivals around the world and was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary The Departure was called A work of art by the San Francisco Chronicle A genuinely spiritual experience by the Washington Post and Tender and movinglike a haiku by the New York Times The film was acquired by FilmRise and theatrically released in 30 US cities beginning with a heldover run at New Yorks Metrograph The Departure has a rare 100 rating on Rotten Tomatoes indicating universal acclaim Wilsons first film After Tiller 2013 goes inside the lives of the four mosttargeted abortion providers in the country taking a powerful and complex look at one of the most incendiary issues of our time After Tiller premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013 and went on to win an Emmy Award for Best Documentary It was also nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary four Cinema Eye Honors a Satellite Award and the Ridenhour Prize After Tiller was acquired by Oscilloscope and released in theaters in 50 US cities The film was named one of the five best documentaries of the year by the National Board of Review and featured in Best of 2013 lists in the LA Times Village Voice Indiewire Artforum and more Flavorwire named it one of the 50 Best Documentaries of All Time Wilson also works in episodic and shortform filmmaking She created and directed A Cure for Fear 2018 a shortform series about a groundbreaking scientist that played at SXSW and was nominated for the 2019 International Documentary Association Award for Best ShortForm Series Wilson has been awarded artist fellowships from the Sundance Institute MacDowell Yaddo and Film Independent and was named to DOC NYCs inaugural 40 Under 40 list She is a recipient of the 2019 Chicken Egg Award Wilson has given talks at a range of contemporary art and film institutions and has been a featured guest on NPR MSNBC WNYC Huffington Post Live Democracy Now and many other programs She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and a graduate of Wesleyan University