Lola Granger-Jourdan is a Franco British award winning filmmaker and literary translator based in New York City. Her motivation to tell stories through film stems from a profound interest in the relationship between humans and animals and a connection to the theme of mortality. An advocate of conservation, she aspires to evoke through her work a sense of wonder and introspection in the viewer, questioning our conception of the city, urban development and our coexistence with other species.

Lola received an MA in Media Studies and an Advanced Certificate in Documentary Studies from The New School. She also holds a BA (Hons) degree in Critical Creative Production and Spanish from NYU. Her most recent short documentaryon women artists in taxidermy "Through a Glass Eye" was screened at DOC NYC 2023 and selected for and won awards at numerous other international film festivals. She is currently finishing a short documentary film titled Blue Blood about horseshoe crabs on Plumb Beach in Brooklyn.