Lola Kenet (22) is a Director, Producer, and Editor from NYC. Lola
is drawn to character studies in narrative and documentary form.
Through her films Lola aims to push internal conflict outwards, and
explore the universal insecurities that affect people’s relationships.
A recipient of the 2017 Tribeca Film Fellowship, she premiered her first short film “Weight of the Whale on Her Shoulders” at the Tribeca Film Festival. She was also recognized as a 2018 Film Independent Future Filmmaker, and is an alumni of the 2021 Telluride Student Symposium.
A Spanish-American dual citizen, Lola spent spring of 2022 working as a Post Production Assistant and translator at Lopez Li Films, a Goya Award-winning documentary production company in Madrid. Lola graduated from Boston University in 2023, where her senior film “The Rest of the House” was honored as one of six official entries to BU’s Redstones Film Festival. While at BU, she also assistant directed the DGA Student Award winning short film "Bob".
She is the co-founder of ARE WE THERE YET?, a production
company specializing in commercials and documentaries that has
worked for clients such as the Mellon Foundation, META, Ray Bans, Adolescent Content, and Colgate.