Luciana Riso is a Colombian/Italian cinematographer working across narrative, documentary, music videos, commercial and art films- an alumna of the National Film Television School and attendee of Berlin Talent Campus. Feature film work, short films and art films have screened across the globe.

Luciana's latest feature shot in Colombia is currently in post production in Spain. Free Eliza, Cyprus short film, premiered in Director's Fortnight at Cannes in 2026. Retreat, produced by BBC and Fold, directed by Ted Evans, premiere at TIFF in 2025. And La Piel en Primavera/ Skin in Spring, directed by Yennifer Uribe, had its world premiere at the Berlinale in 2024 in the Forum section. Among other shorts and festival participations, The Future Isn’t What is Used to Be, directed by Adeyemi Michael and produced by Film4, is a standout having premiered at TIFF in the short competition. Subsequently it earned a BSC nomination for best short cinematography in 2022. Another standout, Aribada, was screened at Director’s Fortnight in Cannes that same year.

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Luciana was nominated for her work in La Piel en Primavera in Colombia’s national awards "Premios Macondo" in 2025. In 2020 she won best short experimental cinematography at the prestigious Zigmud Cinematogrpahy Film Festival. She is now a member of the Asociación de Cinematógrafos Colombiana (ADFC) and the iluminatrix collective in the UK.

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She has worked for:

AMAZON, AGILE FILMS, LOS NOTARIOS, GIRLS IN FILM, BBC, CHANNEL 4, NETFLIX, THE GUARDIAN, NOWNESS, DAZED, ROYAL COURT THEATRE, ICA, FRUIT TREE MEDIA, LITTLE DOT FILMS, COMPULSORY, CAMDEN ARTS CENTRE, BRITISH ARTS COUNCIL