Lauren Mueller, a documentary filmmaker from Portland, Oregon, holds an MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts from Duke University where she was recognized as an Emerging Global Talent by the University Film & Video Association with a Kodak Gold Award for her short film, The Gibbons of Santa Clarita. The docu-fiction takes a look at the psychological effects captivity can have on gibbons, the lesser-apes. Monotony and boredom eventually overtake the gibbons psychologically and they begin to challenge their captors.
Lauren was a production coordinator on the award-winning documentary, Seed:The Untold Story, which aired on PBS, and a producer at Blue Chalk Media, a New York/Portland production company with clients on six continents which is devoted to the power of nonfiction storytelling. In 2019, Lauren acted as Director of Photography on the Netflix Original, The Speedcubers, which follows an international gathering of rubik's cube fanatics.
More recently, Lauren produced two feature-length films with the director, Irene Taylor: Leave No Trace, a Hulu documentary that investigates the devastating consequences of unchecked sexual abuse in the Boy Scouts and Siren (still in post-production) that explores the life of the late deaf body-builder, "Siren" who starred on the American Gladiators in the early 90's with the help of award-winning deaf actor, Marlee Matlin.