LWC Studios

Erasing the margins with original storytelling in film and digital audio.

About the Business

LWC Studios is an award-winning digital media studio whose original work reaches rising audiences with programming that has a social-justice vein. For ten years, its original shows have expanded on its mission of "Erasing the Margins" by training creators of color in the digital audio and film while creating narrative-changing work that underscores the complexities of multi-hyphenate realities in the United States today. In digital audio and podcasts, its 70 Million series was the first open-source podcast chronicling how local residents tackle jail reform. LWC Studios received a Peabody Award nomination for it.

Juleyka Lantigua

Juleyka Lantigua is the Founder of LWC Studios, an award-winning digital media studio whose original work reaches rising audiences with programming that has a social-justice vein. As a filmmaker, She just completed work on two feature documentaries–as co-writer/creator and executive producer on The Lorraine, which had its world premiere at Tribeca Festival, and as executive producer on the award-winning Saving Etting Street, which premiered at DOC NYC. Juleyka is an active member of Women in Film, New York Women in Film and Television, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, and Women Independent Producers.

In digital audio and podcasts, LWC Studios received a Peabody Award nomination and won “The Director’s Prize,” atThird Coast, known as “The Oscars of Audio.” “Driving the Green Book,” which she edited and the company produced for Macmillan Podcasts, earned the inaugural Ambie for Best History Podcast.

A Fulbright Scholar and Latino Business Action Network alumna (Stanford University), Juleyka has served on the board of governors of The Podcast Academy, Latino Media Network, the Tory Burch Foundation President’s Advisory Council, and the boards of directors of TechBridge Girls.

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