Lana Link

Senior Vice President, Moving Picture Institute | Landing the First Feature: How Shorts Can Lead to Opportunities

Lana Link, the Moving Picture Institute's senior vice president, works with the executive staff to acquire, develop, and produce MPI films. She also works with rising filmmakers in MPI's talent development programs, including MPI's Short Film Creative Development and Production Lab. Her various producer credits include narrative shorts Gringa, A Piece of Cake (Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival 2020, Nominated for Best Narrative Short), The Perfect One, Moving Violation, and Regulation; feature documentaries Project Home: 3D Printing the Future, The Dissident, Incarcerating US, and Los Ultimos Frikis; short doc Mama Rwanda; and feature narrative Miss Virginia starring Uzo Aduba and Matthew Modine. Lana is currently producing MPI's forthcoming narrative features, The Melony Armstrong Story, The Kemba Smith Story, and Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game. Lana is a graduate of the University of Chicago and a former Fulbright grant recipient in Vienna, Austria. She earned her JD from Pepperdine University School of Law and her certificate in independent producing from UCLA Extension. Lana is an associate member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences.