Master Class: Creative Producing with Lucas Joaquin

Join Lucas Joaquin, a producer on the recent A24 release Death Of a Unicorn, for an illuminating conversation about producing independent films.

About Lucas Joaquin

Lucas Joaquin is a creative producer in New York City and a founding member, with producer Drew Houpt and writer/director/producer Alex Scharfman, of the production company Secret Engine.

Recent films include Death Of a Unicorn written and directed by Scharfman, starring Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega, with A24, Ley Line, and Square Peg (SXSW 2025); Hold Your Breath directed by Karrie Crouse and Will Joines, starring Sarah Paulson released by Searchlight (TIFF 2024); House of Spoils directed by Bridget Savage-Cole & Danielle Krudy, starring Oscar winner Ariana DeBose, released by Amazon MGM Studios; and Andrew Semans’ Resurrection (Sundance 2022) starring Rebecca Hall and Tim Roth released by IFC Films and Shudder.

He was Executive Producer of Ira Sachs’s Peter Hujar’s Day, starring Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall (Sundance, 2025); Blow the Man Down, directed by Bridget Savage-Cole & Danielle Krudy (TIFF, 2019), released by Amazon Studios; and Ira Sachs’s Frankie, starring Isabelle Huppert and Marisa Tomei, (Cannes 2019) released by Sony Pictures Classics.

Before co-founding Secret Engine, Joaquin produced several acclaimed features, including Ira Sachs’s Keep the Lights On, Love Is Strange, and Little Men. He was a Sundance Creative Producing Lab Fellow, a member of AMPAS, has taught at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, and worked for several years with the prolific production company Parts & Labor (The Witch, Beginners).