Luke Langsdale is an award winning, neurodivergent writer and director who's A.D.H.D drives his creativity and who's dyslexia enhances his problem solving capabilities.

Raised in England’s bleak, North Norfolk wilds, he’s been contributing to the creation of image on a professional level since he was 14.

He is a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and an alumni of the Raindance directors program.

His first passion was the medium of documentary and attributes of this combined with the harsh environment in which he grew up are reflected in his screenplays and the visual aesthetic of his films.

His focus on powerful storytelling has won him I.T.V’s ‘New Voices’ first time director’s initiative, A $45,000 Bravo FACT filmmakers grant, and had his work shortlisted for the Sundance Writer’s Lab and shortlisted for a place on the B.F.I director’s program. Most recently, Luke received a Montana Film production grant, for his film Blood & Water.

As a creative director he’s shot magazine editorials and covers all over the world, from Iceland to Ayia Napa, and has led photographic expeditions from The Amazon Jungle to the Swiss Alps winning him awards from AdWeek, Creative Review and D&AD, to name but a few.

In the past Luke spent time in Peru working with The Chandler Sky foundation to visually document, a chronicle of human stories from the more poverty stricken parts of the country and has since worked with New Brunswick wellness to create a series of award winning films highlighting local obesity rates.

His commercial work has generated millions of views online, and won him awards around the world and his first music video was voted ‘Video of the week’ on Pitchfork.

Luke tells unique and powerful stories.

He has written seven feature films, including LIONESS, the story of America’s first female soldier, developed for Mad Chance, HARVEST, a folk horror, that’s currently in pre-production to shoot in the Philippines, and BLOOD & RUST, a neo-western that he’s developing from his award winning short BLOOD & WATER

Luke was Fashion Director of his first magazine at 20, had his first documentary commissioned for network television at 25 and had won is first dramatic film grant by 28. He is developing several projects with major production companies, is an active member of BAFTA, and is slated to shoot his feature film debut in 2026.

Luke overcame dyslexia and ADHD, to have his first screenplay, THE COLD HEARTED produced, and released in the summer of 2025 under the title: THE FOG OF WAR, staring John Cusack and Mira Sorvino.

THE COLD HEARTED script was was shortlisted for the Sundance Writer’s Lab and for B.F.I funding.

The only thing Luke loves more than telling stories and setting aesthetics are his beautiful wife, his son, and his daughter, with whom, after a decade of living in Los Angeles, he has recently relocated to England’s beautiful south coast.