Lukas Strautins
Director, Screenwriter, Producer and Actor
Melbourne, Australia
August 2013
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About Lukas
Writer/Director, cool thing collector.
Designed in Latvia but made in Australia, I’ve recently graduated from the Advanced Diploma of Professional Screenwriting from RMIT University in 2023, specialising in Comedy & Sitcom, TV Drama, and Feature Film.
Having completed a TV sitcom pilot, TV dramedy pilot and two high-concept feature film screenplays, I always focus on the balance between drama, heart, and spicing up comical aspects of human nature.
I’m a movie junkie (test me with trivia!), and in the past have written and directed short films, managed cast and crew, cooked for presidents, kicked printers into submission and saved the universe on more than one occasion. But who’s counting?
But it was twice. Twice.
Currently mentored by Australian comedy legend Tim Ferguson.
Personal Achievements:
- Top 10% for the Australian Writers Guild Emerging Writer Award (formerly The Monte Miller Award) 2024;
- Completed the Advanced Diploma of Professional Screenwriting in 2023 (RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia);
- Completed Horror-dy Feature Film Screenplay “Hotel Eternus”;
- Completed historical Samurai Feature Film Screenplay “Under One Sky”;
- Development of TV Sitcom Series “Backyard Bonanza”;
- Development of TV Drama Series “Gold Fever”;
- Spec script for "South Park";
- Created Motion Comic “The Battle of Nagashino”. (YouTube)
- Video Essay “The History of Japanese Samurai Cinema”. (YouTube)
- Comedy Monologue for character Ron Swanson of “Parks and Rec” (YouTube)
Unique traits: I make good pulled pork from a jackfruit.
Certifications
Links
Loglines
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Hotel Eternus Budget: $5M - $10M | Sci-fi ⋄ Horror When a group of cyberpunk misfits take shelter in the city's last hotel from a catastrophic storm, their safe haven soon turns into a cybernetic nightmare.
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Under One Sky Budget: $30M+ | Historical ⋄ Adventure Based on true events, an African slave is thrust to feudal Japan to become a samurai under the one lord who can unite the tumultuous land - Oda Nobunaga. Little do they know, the slave is of royal tribal heritage.
Awards
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Semi Finalist, Australian Writers Guild Emerging Writer Award
(2024)
Education
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RMIT University
(2022-2023)
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