Workshop Details
Step into the shadows of storytelling in this chilling, virtual workshop where we’ll peel back the layers of the horror film Sinners. Discover eerie filmmaking tips and devilish tricks utilized by the film’s team, and break it down like a haunted autopsy.
This workshop will also explore how to craft horror narratives that don’t fall into the trap of tokenization. Learn how to write scripts and create films that respect identity, uplift authentic voices, and still send shivers down the spine.
Grab your notebook and your flashlight, this is one workshop where the monsters are on screen… and in the details.
Workshop Leader
Steven Luna is an award-winning director, filmmaker, producer, and photographer whose work has screened in film festivals and art exhibitions internationally. Luna's photography was selected by the Guggenheim Museum's Associate Curator for the 103rd Annual Bendheim Exhibit, and has won grants from the Rhode Island State Council of the Arts. He served as First Assistant Director to Playland (2023) which premiered internationally at IFFR, and Tribeca Film Festival in the US. Luna joined DominiRican Productions in 2020 as Co-Partner and Lead Director of Photography and Editor.
Luna received an MFA from Emerson College and has taught with the Institute of Contemporary Arts in Boston, MA, as well as CCTV, AS220, Rhode Island College, and Emerson College. In 2023, Steven founded De Cerca Films, a multimedia company specializing in documentary-style media capture. His film following Bombazo Dance Company in Ponce, Puerto Rico, exhibited at a show called An Afro-Latinx Mixtape at the Jamaica Center for the Arts and Learning in summer 2024. As of Fall 2024, Luna’s latest short documentary film, Fiebre (2024), will premiere at the Big Apple Film Festival in New York. Luna’s storytelling is soulful and people-centered, drawing from his upbringing by Dominican matriarchs and his Caribbean heritages, and centered around breaking norms in the film industry in order to fully uplift and celebrate marginalized experiences as a way to realize a deep interconnectedness.