Lauren Lindsay

A craft service veteran with 30 years’ experience on 82 productions including Legends of the Fall, The Ford Mustang Super Bowl commercial, Clan of the Cave Bear, The Sea Wolf, Rocky IV, April Fools Day, The X-Files 2nd unit, Dr Who, Backfire, Sleepwalkers, Ticket Out, and The Highlander to name a few. Her experience includes high budget features and student films, as well as commercials and TV series. Restaurant owner, head chef, food truck vendor, and nutrition expert, she is a walking encyclopedia of Food Services.
Youngest of 7 sisters, she was born on a farm on the Saskatchewan prairie. Her younger brother made up the family of ten at the table for every meal. The home kitchen ran like a well-oiled machine overseen by her mother. Self-sufficient pioneers for grandparents set the standard of food quality, preparation, and storage of “made from scratch” feasts as a day to day fact of life.
Moving to the interior of British Columbia after school, she started cooking in a neighbourhood pub, which led to cooking in bush camps for 100 or more people. Her experience includes four years as the A chef at night for the Keg Restaurant, owner/operator of food vending trucks, and consulting for large crowd world class events. It was during the time she lived on Apex Alpine Ski Resort that the film production “Clan of the Cave Bear” arrived at the mountain. The craft service technician on that film hired her to assist in the craft department. In those days, craft was basically coffee and donuts. Lauren revolutionized the daily menu to include fresh fruits, vegetables, and healthy snacks to suit all diets including meat lovers, vegetarians, vegans’, and diabetics. The crew showed their appreciation by voting her into the IATSE (International Alliance of theater and Stage Employees), and encouraged her to work on the next productions with them. It is the passion for good healthy FRESH food that has made her famous behind the camera.
Today, as President of her company LL Services, she is consulting for film companies to hire and train craft service technicians. She has written an instructional manual detailing the work of craft service enriched with colorful day to day life on set stories.