FILMOGRAPHY

Director, Producer, Animator, Editor, “A Paradise Lost“ (2025).

Director, Animator, “Sanctuary“ (2024).

Co-Director, Editor, Animator, “The gold of a yellow plant” (2021).

Director, Editor, “Reel Wahine of Hawaii: Anne Misawa” (2018).

Co-Director, Co-Producer, Editor, Animator, “Of Memory & Los Sures” (2012).  

Director, Producer, Editor, Animator, “Struggle for Existence” (2010).  

Director, Producer, Editor, “Words without Borders” (2009).  

Collaborator, “Living Los Sures,” (2014) dir UnionDocs.  

Designer, Animator “Abundant Land,” (2015) dir. Natasha Florentino.  

Animator, “Kate Bornstein is a Queer & Present Danger,” (2013) dir. Sam Feder.  

Designer, Animator, Transmedia Producer, “My Brooklyn” (2012) dir. Kelly Anderson. 

Designer, “Project Kashmir,” (2008) dir. Geeta V. Patel and Senain Keshigi. 

AWARDS & HONORS

Sony Camera Grant, 2022.

Honorable Mention, IF/Then Shorts x The Redford Center Nature Access Pitch at DOC NYC, 2021.

Harriet Barlow Award, Blue Mountain Center, 2021.

Winner, Top Ten Award, LETTERS FROM THE SKY Experimental Film Festival.  

Winner, Best Student Film, 2011 American Conservation Film Festival.  

Winner, Best Documentary, 2010 CUNY Asian American Film Festival.  

Nominee, Best Student Short Documentary, DOCUTAH 2011.

FELLOWSHIPS & RESIDENCIES

A Studio in the Woods, Rising: Climate in Crisis Artist-in-Residence, New Orleans, LA. 2022-23.

Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Natural History Artist-in-Residence, Honolulu, HI. 2021-22.

Blue Mountain Center, Artist-in-Residence, Blue Mountain, NY. 2021.

Jackson Wild Multicultural Film Fellowship, Jackson Hole, WY. 2021.

Sundance Institute / Women in Film Fellowship. 2020.

Firelight Media Documentary Lab Fellowship. 2019-2020.

Box Jelly Artist-in-Residence, Honolulu, HI. 2016-2017.

Sacatar Institute Fellowship, Bahia, Brazil. 2015.  

Wide Open Studios Environmental Arts Residency. Signal Fire, Portland, OR. 2015.  

Digital Artist Studios International Residency, Belfast, UK. 2012.  

Merzbarn Environmental Engagement Residency, Elterwater, Cumbria, UK. Oct 2011.  

UnionDocs Collab Residency. UnionDocs Center for Documentary Arts. Brooklyn, NY. 2010-11.

SELECTED SCREENINGS

“Symbiosis,” Imagine Science Film Festival, 2021.

“Peace on Earth,” Lancaster Museum of Art & History, Lancaster, CA. January-April 2019. 

Hawaii International Film Festival. Honolulu, HI. 2018.

Theatrical release (w LOS SURES), Metrograph Theater, New York. April 15th-May 5th 2016.

“Greater New York,” PS1MoMA. Long Island City, NY. October 11, 2015-March 7, 2016.

New York Film Festival, New York. 2014.  

OYE! Avant-Garde Festival. Brooklyn, NY. 2014.  

DOC NYC, New York, NY. 2013.  

Rincon International Film Festival. Rincon, Puerto Rico. 2013.  

BAMcinemaFest, Brooklyn, NY. 2012.  

LETTERS FROM THE SKY Experimental Film Festival on Climate Change, South Africa, 2011. 

American Conservation Film Festival. Shepherdstown, West Virginia. 2011.  

DOCUTAH: Southern Utah Documentary Festival. St. George, Utah. 2011.

Hawaii International Film Festival. Honolulu, Hawaii. 2010.  

Asian American International Film Festival. New York, NY. 2010. 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

“New Work by Laurie Sumiye.” 2019 SACNAS - The National Diversity in STEM Conference, Hawaii Convention Center, Honolulu, HI, 2019.

“CASE.” Hawaii Pacific University, Kaneohe, HI, 2019.

“36 Views of Mauna Kea.” The Box Jelly, Honolulu, HI, 2017.

“Laysan 1902” Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI, semi-permanent installation. 2016.

“Botanical.” Dobbin Project Space, Brooklyn, NY. 2013.

“House of Glass.” Belfast Botanical Gardens, Belfast, N. Ireland,   UK. 2012.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

“Kipaipai Fellows 2020.” Kahilu Gallery, Waimea, HI. September 25 - November 8, 2020. 
 

“Create & Collaborate.” Loft at Liz’s, Los Angeles, CA. January - March 2020.

“Peace on Earth.” Lancaster Museum of Art & History, Lancaster, CA. January - April, 2019. 

“DAS Short Programme.” Golden Thread Gallery. Belfast, UK. October 2018.

“Royal Ulster Academy of Arts 134th Annual Exhibition.” Ulster Museum, Belfast, UK. Oct 16, 2015 - Jan 3, 2016. 

“Smoke Signals.” Atelie da Barão-GALERIA CALIFÓRNIA, São Paulo, Brazil. June 2 - 20, 2012.

KS11 Kurt Schwitters' Merz Barn Open Week-end, Elterwater, Cumbria, UK. Oct 14 - 16, 2011.

“Common Ground: Imaging North Brooklyn” Arts@Renaissance, Brooklyn, NY. Sept 24 - Oct 15, 2010. 

“Obsession Obsessive Obsessed” Summercamp Project Project, Los Angeles, CA. Aug 22 - Sept 3, 2010. 

“CONSUME” Exit Underground at Exit Art, New York, NY. June 18 - Aug 28, 2010.

“Out of Order II” Monkeytown, Brooklyn, NY. Dec 13, 2009.

“Medium of Exchange” Hunter College, New York, NY. May 8 - 10, 2009. 

“Eco/Logic” The ARTS At Marks Garage, Honolulu, HI. July 29 - Sept 6, 2008.

“It’s Not Easy” Exit Underground at Exit Art, New York, NY. July 24 - Aug 29, 2008. 

“Synbiosis” Steuben West Gallery, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. Dec 14 - 15, 2007. 

“Art of Electronics” Lemurplex, Brooklyn, NY. May 12, 2007. 

EDUCATION

CUNY Hunter College, New York, New York. MFA in Integrated Media Arts, 2010.  

Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York. Graduate studies in Digital Arts. Sept 2006 - Dec 2007.  

Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois. B.A. in Art and B.S. in Radio/TV. Cum Laude, 1999.  

Lorenzo de’ Medici, Florence, Italy. Painting and Photography, 1997. 

Mililani High School, Magna Cum Laude, 1995.

TEACHING

Assistant Professor of Film/Transmedia, University of Hawaiʻi-West Oʻahu. 2017 - 2021.

WORKSHOPS & PITCH LABS

IF/Then Shorts x The Redford Center Nature Access Pitch at DOC NYC, New York, 2021.

Doc Society Good Pitch Local Hawai’i.  Honolulu, HI, Fall 2019.

Kipaipai Professional Development Workshop - New York, November 2019.

Kipaipai Professional Development Workshop - Hawaii, July 2016.

Global Virtual Studios Transmedia Accelerator Boardroom Event, Kona, HI, February 2015.

POV Hackathon PBS Digital, Los Angeles, May 2014.  

PIC/ITVS Producers’ Workshop, Honolulu, HI. 2014.  

Bay Area Video Coalition Producers Institute for New Media Technologies, New York. Jan 2011. 

Shirin Neshat Master Class, Hunter College, New York, NY, March 2009. 

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS

“Experiencing nature in virtual environments: an exploration of non-human perspective-taking, digital cultures, and audience impact in virtual reality and 360 environmental films.” Panel Presentation, University Film and Video Association Conference, 2021.

“APAHM: Pau Hana Fridays.” Artist Presentation, Apple Inc. San Francisco, CA. May 14, 2021.

“Laurie Sumiye.” Artist Presentation, Donkey Mill Art Center. Holulaloa, HI. May 2021.


“Environmental Storytelling,” Panel Presentation, University Film and Video Conference, 2020.

"Preservation of Protected Sites Through Transmedia Place-Based Documentary Storytelling, ” Presenter, Pluralities Conference, San Francisco State University, 2019.  

“Science through Art: Birds of a Feather Working Together,” Presenter, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI. Sept 2019. 

“Symphony of Hawaiian Birds,” Audio-visual performance with Hawaii Symphony Orchestra. Honolulu, HI. 2018.

Science Alive! Bishop Museum. Honolulu, HI. March 2017.

POPUP

Nordstrom Ala Moana. Honolulu, HI. Holiday 2018. 

J.Crew Ala Moana. Honolulu, HI. Artisan Holiday 2017.