Young People’s Concerts Documentary Untitled

Director and Producer Luisa Conlon

Between 1958 and 1972, Leonard Bernstein brought his Young People’s Concerts to network television, democratizing music education for millions of Americans. Young People’s Concerts Documentary Untitled weaves these original broadcasts with archive and interviews to trace Bernstein’s journey through these years—and what he hoped to offer a nation in crisis.

Luisa Conlon

Director, Producer

Luisa Conlon is an Emmy Award-winning documentary director and cinematographer. Her directorial work includes Senior Prom (2021), a portrait of the LA LGBT Center’s retirement community acquired by Independent Lens and nominated for an International Documentary Association Award. We Became Fragments (The New York Times Op-Docs, 2018) followed a young Syrian refugee’s journey to Canada, earning an IDA Award nomination and a screening at the United Nations General Assembly. She is currently directing Football Americano, a feature documentary executive produced by Fisher Stevens. As a cinematographer, her credits include Isabel Castro’s Mija (Disney Original Documentaries), Hannah Olson’s Emmy-nominated The Last Cruise (HBO), the Emmy-winning Science Fair (National Geographic), and Karol G: Mañana Fue Muy Bonito (Netflix). A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, she is a two-time Livingston Award finalist and Pulitzer Center grantee based in Brooklyn.