Talent Guide

Lysette Urus

  • Discipline:Producer
  • Program Year:Fast Track 2021, Producing Lab 2021

Bio

Lysette Urus is a Los Angeles-based producer from New York City. Lysette has had a prosperous career working on documentaries and frequently collaborates with documentary-based production companies, Strike Anywhere and XTR. Lysette’s recent credits include Co-Producer on the Quibi documentary, Blackballed, and Line Producer on Marvel’s Behind the Mask. For the past two years she has been developing her first narrative feature, Wild Animal. The proof-of-concept for Wild Animal recently took home the prizes for Best Narrative Short and Best Made in Montana film from the MINT Film Festival and is a recipient of the Montana Big Sky Film Grant.

Current Project

Wild Animal

Logline

A young, transient MMA fighter is forced to choose between court-ordered Equine Therapy and the familiar path of self destruction, after a traumatic brain injury threatens her promising career.