SXSW 2012

Producer
Double Wide Media
Lauren Wolkstein is a NYC-based filmmaker. This is her fifth year in a row with short film work being showcased at SXSW. She directed THE STRANGE ONES with Christopher Radcliff, which premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, and has since screened at over 100 festivals worldwide, including SXSW, Rotterdam, Clermont-Ferrand, and Tokyo and has received numerous awards, including several Oscar-qualifying festival wins. She has also directed the acclaimed short films CIGARETTE CANDY (best short film, SXSW 2010), and SOCIAL BUTTERFLY, which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. She earned her MFA in film from Columbia University, where she received the Plum Pictures Most Promising Filmmaker Award. Lauren was also recently selected as one of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film. She was a producer on JONATHAN'S CHEST (dir. Christopher Radcliff), which premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and screens at this year's SXSW Film Festival.