Anna Lueck is a documentary filmmaker who tells stories about the people and communities working towards a better world — particularly those in close relationship to rivers and oceans. She began her career at Brooklyn’s BRIC TV, where she helped produce videos on issues from climate activism to gun violence. Raised on a Puget Sound island, she now translates her love for Northwest lands and waters into frequent visual storytelling about conservation, environmental justice, and connection to nature. Her film hitoláayca (Going Upriver), a documentary short about the first contemporary Nez Perce person to receive a whitewater guiding license, was a finalist in the Redford Center and IF/Then Shorts’ Nature Connection Pitch and won awards at BendFilm and the Eastern Oregon Film Festival. Anna holds a Master’s in Multimedia Journalism from the University of Oregon.