Lisa Lutes

lmluey@gmail.com

Lisa Lutes is a screenwriter from Ottawa, Canada. Lisa graduated from university with a degree in marine and freshwater biology and worked as a fisheries biologist on ships and islands in the Alaskan fishing industry. Eventually, she went back to university in Australia to train as a primary school teacher to settle down and raise her two daughters.

After writing a novel and memoir about Alaska, as well as several picture books, she decided to give screenwriting a turn and fell in love. Lisa uses her strange mix of world travel, teaching and parenting experience to write comedy and family, with a love of all things time travel, looping and bending.

Lisa is currently developing a series of middle grade graphic novels with her illustrator husband, Jay Lutes.

Honors & Awards

Semifinalist, PAGE awards - PRESENT 2024

Second Round, Sundance development track - OSTARBEITER 2025

non-WGA

Female, Disabled, 40+

PRESENT

Family feature

Trapped in the photos of her social media account, a girl must find a way out to return to her real life.

OSTARBEITER

Drama feature

Three mothers in different times and places deal with the generational consequences of a Nazi work camp that imprisoned Eastern European women in WW2.

SHOWROOM

Comedy feature

Trapped in an IKEA showroom of their past, a couple must navigate years of built up resentment to survive the adjustment of an empty nest.

Female-centric, Sci-Fi, Children's, Magical Realism

Female, Disabled, 40+

unrepped