Lalou Dammond and Joaquin Baca-Asay Join Chelsea for US and UK Representation

Multi-hyphenate directing duo Lalou & Joaquin join Chelsea Pictures for US and UK representation. Creative partners since 2006, Lalou and Joaquin like to make stories that are humanistic, witty, uplifting, visually striking  and technically inventive. They have directed award-winning campaigns for leading global brands with accolades at Cannes, Clios, AICP, Effies, Ciclope, ADDYs, One Show, and a DGA nomination for Outstanding Direction. Lalou and Joaquin's Rick Younger Presents The Rick Younger Show won best pilot at 2023 NY Webfest, and is one of four selections at the 2024 Harlem International Film Festival.  

"We’ve long admired the group of exceptionally talented filmmakers at Chelsea, and love the richness and individualism of each of their corners of the artistic universe. Lisa [Mehling] and her team clearly have a curatorial take on their roster, and we’re honoured to be a part of it,” say Lalou and Joaquin.  

After graduating from Princeton, Lalou jumped straight into filmmaking as a producer of award-winning independent films and documentaries. Joaquin began his career as a cinematographer, gaining an Oscar nod for The Lady In Waiting which he shot while a student at NYU Film School. He went on to shoot notable music videos and feature films, including James Gray’s We Own the Night and Two Lovers, both of which premiered  at Cannes; Dylan Kidd’s Roger Dodger, which won best narrative feature at Tribeca Film Festival; Mike Mills' Thumbsucker, which won awards at Sundance and Berlin, and the cult comedy classic, Super Troopers.  

Currently, Lalou and Joaquin are in post production on a feature documentary set in the world of British electronic music, and Lalou is directing a documentary about her great-uncle, the radical civil rights activist William Monroe Trotter, that Joaquin is shooting. In their spare time they like to write and direct social justice PSAs, collaborate with other filmmakers on shorts, documentaries and television projects, and run their Craftwork Collaborative mentorship program for young creatives.

On their joining Chelsea, owner and  president Lisa Mehling remarks, “Lalou and Joaquin are true filmmakers and it's an honour to have them join Chelsea. They are dogged  in their drive to tell human stories and are collaborative to the core - they inspire us and we can’t wait to get to work.”  

To view more of Lalou & Joaquin’s work, please visit here.