About Lucas Joaquin
Lucas Joaquin is an independent creative producer in New York City and a founding member (with Drew Houpt and Alex Scharfman) of the production companySecret Engine. With Secret Engine, he has produced feature films for some of the most original voices working in contemporary cinema.
Most recently, Joaquin produced Karen Cinorre’s feature film MAYDAY, starring Grace Van Patten, Mia Goth, Havana Rose Liu, Soko, and Juliette Lewis, which premiered in competition at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, and internationally at the Rotterdam Film Festival, currently in release through Magnolia Pictures.
Other recent films include Braden King’s THE EVENING HOUR, which premiered in competition at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and was released in North America by Strand Releasing; and Tayarisha Poe’s SELAH AND THE SPADES which premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and was released by Amazon Studios (and was chosen by Barack Obama for his Top 10 list of films in 2020).
He was Executive Producer of RESURRECTION, written and directed by Andrew Semans and starring Rebecca Hall (Sundance, 2022) currently in release by IFC Films and Shudder; BLOW THE MAN DOWN (Dir. Bridget Savage-Cole & Danielle Krudy) which screened at the 2019 Tribeca and Toronto International Film Festivals, and was released by Amazon Studios; and Ira Sachs’s FRANKIE, starring Isabelle Huppert and Marisa Tomei, which premiered in competition at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival and was released in the US by Sony Pictures Classics.
Upcoming projects include DUST directed by Karrie Crouse and Will Joines, producing with Alix Madigan of Mad Dog Pictures, currently in development at Searchlight with Sarah Paulson to star; DEATH OF A UNICORNE, written and to be directed by Alex Scharfman, currently in development at A24; and Russell Harbaugh’s COMPOUND.
Before co-founding Secret Engine, Joaquin produced several features, including Ira Sachs’s KEEP THE LIGHTS ON, LOVE IS STRANGE, and LITTLE MEN.
Joaquin was a 2012 Sundance Creative Producing Lab Fellow, a nominee for the 2021 Independent Spirit Awards Producing Award, is a member of AMPAS, and worked for many years with the prolific production company Parts & Labor.
Photo by Jeong Park
