Adrian

Adrian Nuño is a Chicago-based filmmaker, producer, director, editor and content creator with over thirteen years of experience telling stories that amplify underrepresented voices. His work spans narrative filmmaking, web series, and digital content, often exploring themes of identity, mental health, and the LGBTQ+ experience.

Adrian co-directed, edited and produced the award-winning short film Little Things, a heartfelt exploration of mental health that earned recognition at film festivals in Portugal and Ireland and won the Grand Jury Prize at the Southern City Film Festival in South Carolina. He also co-created the Latine web series Border’d alongside Lauryn Lugo and his twin brother Andrew, which premiered on the Emmy-nominated platform Open Television. The series has been recognized with a Telly Award and screened at Miami Web Fest, LA Latinx Film Fest, Melbourne WebFest, and the Official Latino Arts & Film Festival, where it won Best Actress in an Episodic and earned Adrian a nomination for Best Actor in an Episodic.

In 2022, HipLatina named Adrian and his twin brother Andrew among the “10 Latinx Filmmakers You Should Know About.”

Adrian is currently focused on Final Frame, a deeply personal short film exploring LGBTQ+ love, creativity, and work-life balance, as it is currently on the festival circuit. He is also a producer on the animated short Draft Paper. Beyond filmmaking, Adrian is the co-founder of Luminoso Studios, a production company dedicated to high-quality visual storytelling, video editing, directing, producing, and consulting. His work continues to bridge entertainment and advocacy, ensuring that every story he tells resonates deeply with audiences.

Andrew

He wants to make this work specifically for queer Gen Z/millennial audiences of color. Too often Andrew sees Latine narratives deal with the struggles of immigration, poverty, and crime. He wants to challenge these narratives by showing Latines thriving or triumphing over formidable obstacles.

Andrew Nuño is a filmmaker from Chicago, Illinois. His credits and projects include the short film Little Things, the Telly-award winning web series Border’d, and the Emmy-winning show Mardi Gras For All Y’all. His work as a filmmaker is motivated by the desire to not only tell Latine stories but to show Latine stories with characters that are finding themselves and trying to thrive.

Andrew started formally exploring these themes with his short film Little Things which went on to win the Grand Jury Prize at the Southern City Film Festival.  Little Things investigated topics such as depression and suicide and the search for purpose through the lens of a Latine woman who gives herself four hours to find meaning for her life.

In his web series Border'd which he created alongside Adrian Nuño and Lauryn Lugo, he explored the themes of self-discovery and reckoning with family secrets through the story of three Latine siblings returning home after a tragedy.

Border'd won a Silver Telly Award and was given distribution on the Emmy-nominated streaming platform Open Television. In November 2022, Andrew received his first Emmy for his work on the online show Mardi Gras For All Y'all.

Andrew is currently on the festival circuit with his short film Final Frame along with the animated short film Draft Paper that he is a producer of.

In late 2024, Andrew co-founded Luminoso Studios with his twin brother Adrian. 

The Timeline

  • Confinement is released after a long editing process!

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    We started shooting weddings! While we don’t shoot many weddings anymore, these few years were a blast and it was fun being a part of so many people’s special days.
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    We released our first feature-length project: a found footage film called Before I Go! The film centers around a teenager diagnosed with cancer that records months of his life before a surgery.

2018

We finally release our next short film, Little Things, after a successful crowdfunding campaign. The film went on to screen at festivals in Ireland, Portugal, and the US and won the Grand Jury Prize at the Southern City Film Festival. The film focuses on a woman searching for meaning for her life while walking through her suburban hometown.

  • This year we produced and released two shorts: Don’t Be Afraid and Choices! Don’t Be Afraid is a drama that centers on a woman going through loss and Choices focuses on how one person’s choice reverberates through the lives of others.

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    We make our next film, After Dark, that summer and release it in August that year. Thanks to the kindness of a LOT of our friends and family, we made this first jump into really commanding a set and learning the filmmaking process through trial and error.

2021

The full season of Border’d is released on OTV! The show went on to screen at festivals throughout the US and in Australia and won a Telly Award.

2009

We make our very first short film ever…..Mo-Ron. A film about two guys trying to outrun a killer named Morris Ron but Mo-Ron for short. We made it without writing a script and basically no prep and it showed. At the time, Adrian and I thought we were 13-year-old filmmaking gods. Looking back on it now….yeah, we had a lot to learn. But it was how we got our start and we learned a lot from making it. (We even shot a sequel to Mo-Ron during a family trip and wrote a whole script for a third movie! The sequel that wasn’t meant to be!)

  • This is the year we signed up to be two of the writers/directors for the spring play which was going to be an original production put on by a group of students. Adrian only agreed to it on the condition that we don’t act in the play….that condition got broken when we got roped into playing twin hotel employees named Mike and Ike. What resulted was this quirky fun play called “I Do” that honestly was a lot of fun to make and it introduced us to a lot of amazing people who were looking for something creative to do with their summer.

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    We make our next film, After Dark, that summer and release it in August that year. Thanks to the kindness of a LOT of our friends and family, we made this first jump into really commanding a set and learning the filmmaking process through trial and error.

2013

This summer, we kept things going. We kept ourselves quite busy this summer by shooting two completely different projects: a sci-fi dystopian thriller named Confinement and a rom-com named Ups and Downs which Andrew co-wrote with his friend Neil. We continued to learn a lot through the process of making these projects and made so many fun memories.

2025

Adrian and Andrew begin sending their latest short film effort, Final Frame, out to festivals. The film was completed after a successful $20,000 raise and focuses on a film editor that comes to a crossroad when he is forced to choose between his career and the love of his life.

Adrian and Andrew serve as producers on the animated short film, Draft Paper.

Adrian and Andrew officially launch their new production company, Luminoso Studios.

  • Andrew wins his first Emmy for producing an online show called Mardi Gras For All Y’all.

  • Andrew is nominated for the second year in a row for producing the 2023 version of Mardi Gras For All Y’all.