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Creative Artists Agency
Hannah Epstein hannah.epstein@caa.com
Amanda Lebow
amanda.lebow@caa.com
Charlotte Lichtman charlotte.lichtman@caa.com

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laura.checkoway@gmail.com

Laura Checkoway is an Oscar and Emmy nominated filmmaker known for intimate character-driven stories.

Laura directed The Cave of Adullam, produced by Laurence Fishburne, which premiered at Tribeca in 2022 winning Best Documentary Feature and the Audience Award. It follows a martial arts sensei who teaches boys emotional stability and helps them confront unresolved trauma. In an interview with Deadline, Fishburne said: “She has a cinematic sensitivity and a doctor’s bedside manner... Laura doesn’t impose her personality or her energy onto anything. It boils down to her humanity and her ability to see the humanity in all.” The film is available on ESPN+.

Her breakthrough film Edith+Eddie received an Academy Award nomination and Emmy nomination in 2018 and won numerous awards including the IDA Documentary Awards Best Short. Executive produced by Steve James and Cher, it’s a love story about a nonagenarian newlywed couple who are in danger of being torn apart. The film sent a warning cry about elder rights and impacted policy makers at screenings from Capitol Hill to the World Congress on Guardianship in Seoul.

Laura’s work received a social impact grant from NBC Universal and the American Film Institute and a fellowship with the Carey Institute for Global Good. A short doc series that she produced with PBS was nominated for two Emmys in 2020. She received NYWIFT’s Excellence in Documentary Filmmaking Award in 2022. She was series director of We Were Here, an original documentary series reframing perceptions about refugees which was executive produced by Alma Har’el and won the people’s choice award at the Webby Awards in 2024.

Spanning several years with a young homeless mother masked in tattoos, Laura’s award-winning debut film Lucky screened across the globe and premiered on television in 2014. It’s available here.

With a background in journalism, Laura wrote for many publications and was senior editor of Vibe magazine. She co-authored the acclaimed book My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep's Prodigy (which the Ringer described as "one of the best music autobiographies ever") and the NYTimes Best Seller My Voice: A Memoir by Angie Martinez.