Lucas Guilkey

Lucas Guilkey is documentary filmmaker and journalist in Oakland, California. Alongside JoeBill Muñoz, he directed and produced The Strike, a film about the Pelican Bay hunger strikes against indefinite solitary confinement, which premiered in 2024 at Hot Docs. He recently was story producer on Aftershock, a feature documentary about the U.S. maternal health crisis that debuted at Sundance in 2022 and is now streaming on Hulu. Before that he directed What Happened to Dujuan Armstrong?, a short documentary about the cover-up of a young man's death in county jail, which was awarded the best documentary at the BAFTA student film awards.