- llanasc@uwm.edu
- She / Her / They / Them
Cassie Llanas
- Lecturer, Film, Video, Animation and New Genres
Education
MFA, Directing for Film & Television, DePaul University
Biography
Cassie is a queer Latinx award-winning filmmaker AND born-and-raised Wisconsinite happy to be back in the Midwest.
"Back?" you ask. Yes! Back. They spent a good long while working in television and film production on shows like How to Get Away with Murder, Transparent, Twenties, etc working their way up from a production intern to Assistant Production Coordinator learning the ins and outs of what it takes to bring together large scale Hollywood productions. However, after the years, the glitz and glam of working in 'the industry' from the production side became a little less shiny and Cassie started looking for more creative and fulfilling pursuits.
They moved back to the Midwest to be closer to family and to pursue an MFA in Film and Television Directing at DePaul University. Lost Boys Pizza, their MFA thesis film, has won Best Queer Horror Film at the Port of Fear Film Festival, Best Horror Short from Motor City Nightmares, Best Director at the DePaul Premiere Film Festival and many more. As a filmmaker, Cassie enjoys crafting cartoonish worlds spanning multitudes of genre that make you laugh one moment before ripping your heart of your chest, throwing it on the ground, and crushing it beneath the heel of their boots the next….before making you laugh again through the pain. They call it Traumedy?
Cassie currently teaches directing, screenwriting, editing and creative producing at both the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and DePaul University with several projects in development.
Recent Work
