Lucas Celler is an American

documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in te ...

editor, director, photographer and motion designer. He is best known for his work on ''

Shirkers ''Shirkers'' is a 2018 British-American documentary film by Singapore-born filmmaker Sandi Tan about the making of an independent thriller featuring a teenage assassin set in Singapore. It premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival in January ...

'' and ''Claydream''.

Life and career

Lucas went to New Trier High School and Depaul University's School of Cinematic Arts in

Chicago (''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name ...

. He then moved to

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to intern for

Chris Hanley Chris Hanley is an American film producer best known for producing independent films such as '' Buffalo '66'', ''The Virgin Suicides'', '' American Psycho'', ''Spun'', ''Spring Breakers'', and ''London Fields''.http://musefilm.com/ Early years ...

. He served as assistant editor on

Jeff Feuerzeig Jeff Feuerzeig (born 1964) is an American film director and screenwriter best known for ''The Devil and Daniel Johnston'', his profile of cult musician and outsider artist Daniel Johnston, for which he was awarded the Directing prize for Document ...

's Author: The JT LeRoy Story. He got his start editing feature documentary film on

which won him the

Cinema Eye Honors The Cinema Eye Honors are awards recognizing excellence in nonfiction or documentary filmmaking and include awards for the disciplines of directing, producing, cinematography and editing. The awards are presented each January in New York and have b ...

Award for Outstanding Achievement in Graphic Design.

Filmography

Awards and nominations

References

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* * Living people American Cinema Editors American film editors American documentary film directors Year of birth missing (living people) {{Film-editor-stub