Luna Carmoon
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- Film director
- scriptwriter
Luna Carmoon | |
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| Born | 1997 or 1998 (age 27–28) |
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| Years active | 2018–present |
Luna Carmoon (né Hollie Moore;[1] born 1997 or 1998[2]) is an English screenwriter and film director,[3] known for her 2023 debut feature film Hoard starring Joseph Quinn and Hayley Squires produced by BBC Film, Delaval Film, Erebus Pictures, Anti-Worlds and the British Film Institute.[4] Hoard premiered at the 80th Venice International Film Festival.[5]
Carmoon was born in Downham, Lewisham.[6][7] Her father works as a plumber and her mother a hairdresser, they are divorced.[7] She grew up on a council estate with her mum, sister, grandfather, and late-grandmother, who appears at the end of Hoard.[7]
At 17, she realised that she could become a filmmaker and began applying to schemes that did not need a degree, as she was unable to afford film school.[8]
Prior to becoming to filmmaker, Carmoon worked at her local CeX,[2] she was also employed at a garden centre.[9]
Career
In 2019, Carmoon made her first short film Nosebleed with Sky Arts and National Youth Theatre via their "shortFLIX" scheme, ran by Creative UK.[3] The film was screened at BFI London Film Festival and was broadcast on television the same year.[10] The following year, Carmoon was selected as a Sundance Ignite fellow[11] and directed her second short film Shagbands, produced by Film4 and BFI.
Prior to making Hoard, Carmoon was developing a script with Film4 who, she claims, "ghosted" for a year after they put the project on "indefinite hold".[8]
Carmoon eventually made her feature film debut with Hoard in 2023, after a work in process screening at the 2022 BFI London Film Festival.[12] For Hoard, Carmoon received Special Mention for Direction at 2024 Luxembourg City Film Festival.[13]
In 2025, Carmoon was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer. Subsequently becoming a member of BAFTA Breakthrough.[14]
Her next project is confirmed to be a book adaptation that she is transposing to the 1930s, and which will also draw influence from her own grandmother’s diaries.[3]
She has contributed to both Sight and Sound and Tate Etc.
In 2026, it was announced that Carmoon had wrapped principal photography on her next feature To Make Ends Meat, a horror starring Naomi Ackie, Alison Oliver and Éanna Hardwicke.[15] The film, produced by BBC Film, BFI , Goodfellas, Mother, ProdCo, Arts Alliance, Affine Films, Cofiloisirs and Blush Film, will begin its sales launch at Marché du Film. [16]