Writer. Filmmaker. Runner. Naturalist.
Not necessarily in that order.
About Me
Lucas Cunningham is an award-winning writer and filmmaker from Bellingham, WA.
Currently, he lives in Chicago, where he’s getting his MFA in Screenwriting at DePaul University and running Division 1 track.
He’s a big fan of trees.
Selected Works
When the Pines Fall
Feature Script | 119 pages
A grieving Gulf War veteran teams up with an idealistic Native American high schooler to take down an old-growth logging operation in Idaho.
ISA Fast Track Fellowship Category Selection (Action/Adventure)
Far West
Short Film | 9 minutes
After their father dies, two at-odds brothers must put aside their grief to face a dangerous drifter who shows up to collect one last debt.
Official Selection, Tucumcari Film Festival
Coming soon…
Timber Island
Feature Script | 117 pages
When a young National Parks scientist and a Native American surveyor compete to bid on a huge timber estate off the coast of Washington, they find that the decaying mansion – and the family within it – holds dangerous secrets.
Received an “8” evaluation on The Black List
Michael Collyer Memorial Screenwriting Fellowship Finalist
The Man in the Fiber Optic Cable
Short Film | 13 minutes
A young man must run increasingly faster times through a fiber optic cable to pay for his father’s cancer treatment.
“Best Narrative Short” Audience Award, West Sound Film Festival