Full Name
Yingna Lu
Title
Producer
Company
Spaceboy Studio
Biography
Yingna Lu is a creative producer with a background in advertising. She co-founded Spaceboy Studios with Steve Anthopoulos, which received Screen Australia Enterprise funding in 2023.
Lu’s first gig was with Bill Leimbach, working in feature development and music management for Lime Cordiale. From there, Lu produced scripted digital shows for ABC and Foxtel with Matilda and Bryan Brown and numerous Vimeo Staff Pick videos, including music clips for Rüfüs Du Sol, SBCR and short film We’re All Going to Die. Lu was among Screen Producers Australia’s Ones to Watch in 2016, winning Screen Australia’s $20,000 screen Internship.
Her 2017 short Tangles and Knots, directed by Renée Petropoulos, was selected for Berlinale, SXSW, Melbourne and Sydney Film Festival. Her 2022 short Voice Activated, written and directed by Anthopoulos, premiered internationally in Tribeca, was nominated for an AACTA and won Short Film Production of the Year at the 2023 SPA Awards. Her other short-form credits include My Summer in the Human Resistance, Science+, Love Bug and Atomic Love, and she was an assistant producer on SBS’s New Gold Mountain.
Lu produced the ABC’s AACTA-nominated second season of The PM’s Daughter with Fremantle, and is series producer on Easy Tiger's first kids series. She is now in development on the Spaceboy slate including feature Keep Walking (w/d Petropoulos, EP Liz Watts), supported by Screen NSW’s Short to Feature Fast Track initiative and Hello Death Bot with Mad Ones and Dark Horse Entertainment.
Lu’s first gig was with Bill Leimbach, working in feature development and music management for Lime Cordiale. From there, Lu produced scripted digital shows for ABC and Foxtel with Matilda and Bryan Brown and numerous Vimeo Staff Pick videos, including music clips for Rüfüs Du Sol, SBCR and short film We’re All Going to Die. Lu was among Screen Producers Australia’s Ones to Watch in 2016, winning Screen Australia’s $20,000 screen Internship.
Her 2017 short Tangles and Knots, directed by Renée Petropoulos, was selected for Berlinale, SXSW, Melbourne and Sydney Film Festival. Her 2022 short Voice Activated, written and directed by Anthopoulos, premiered internationally in Tribeca, was nominated for an AACTA and won Short Film Production of the Year at the 2023 SPA Awards. Her other short-form credits include My Summer in the Human Resistance, Science+, Love Bug and Atomic Love, and she was an assistant producer on SBS’s New Gold Mountain.
Lu produced the ABC’s AACTA-nominated second season of The PM’s Daughter with Fremantle, and is series producer on Easy Tiger's first kids series. She is now in development on the Spaceboy slate including feature Keep Walking (w/d Petropoulos, EP Liz Watts), supported by Screen NSW’s Short to Feature Fast Track initiative and Hello Death Bot with Mad Ones and Dark Horse Entertainment.
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