His work in film and camera has been screened at festivals nationally – including SXSW, Cinematexas, Olympia Film Festival, Austin Film Festival, Seattle True Independent Film Festival, Urbanworld Festival, Los Angeles International Shorts – and internationally – including the Venice International (Biennale) , Thessaliniki Int’l Film Fest (Greece), Tokyo Int’l Film Fest, Oldenberg Film Festival (Germany), American Film Festival (Wroclaw, Poland), and Cannes. Lucas was a recipient of the 2006 Texas Filmmaker’s Production Fund award for his short 35mm project, Western. He received an MFA in film production with a concentration in cinematography from the University of Texas at Austin in late 2007 and has subsequently led filmmaking workshops and courses in Austin and NYC. He picked up his first Super8 camera in 1998 and hasn’t put it down yet.