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Luminant Media

Los Angeles, California(approximate location)

LUMINANT MEDIA is a production company based in Los Angeles California, with a focus on creating affecting and relevant premium feature films, shorts and series. We pursue the most timely, authentic and complex truth based projects that aim to captivate, challenge and inspire. In an extraordinary time, LUMINANT MEDIA reaches across hyper-polarized divides to tell the world’s most urgent and illuminating documentary and narrative stories.

From their site

Images from Luminant Media’s own website.

Who works there

  • Brian KnappenbergerExecutive Producer, Writer/Director
  • Sarah HuisengaExecutive Producer, SVP Development
  • Clare TuckerSVP Production
  • Sabrina ParkeProducer, Luminant Media
  • Sean JarrettEditor
  • Aaron HowellHead of Post Production A writer and journalist at heart,

Listed on the company’s own site. People move on; this is not a current roster.

Contact & details

TypeProduction Company · Television · Documentary
LocationLos Angeles, California
Websiteluminantmedia.com
Emailinfo@luminantmedia.com
Phone+1 310 822 1824
Statusactive2026 credit i
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How their work is rated

Average rating
7.7IMDb
4.0directory 6.28.0

7 rated titles, weighted by votes

Awards

4 wins from 16 nominations across all awards

Box office
$48,911

Combined US gross, 1 of 10 titles

Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War poster
Highest rated
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
2024
8.45,739 votes
Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies and the Internet poster
Lowest rated
Web of Make Believe: Death, Lies and the Internet
2022
6.52,650 votes
Mostly
documentary, history, war
Active
2012–2026
Rotten Tomatoes
86%
Best known for
The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz

Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 8 of 10 titles. Unmatched titles are left out rather than guessed. Oscars, Emmys and BAFTAs are itemised; other awards sit in the totals. IMDb counts wins separately from losing nominations, so nominations here is wins plus losses.

Their television work

Series
53 seasons

2021–2026

Television rating
7.9IMDb

Their films average 7.5, so the television rates 0.3 higher.

Networks
  • Netflix5

Across 5 series matched to TMDB, 30 episodes.

Series identified from OMDb, falling back to the credit type where OMDb had no match. Season counts are each show’s full run, not only the seasons this company was credited on.

Credits10 of 11

5 films · 5 TV titles

Showing 10 of 11 titles on record.

Titles per year10 titles · busiest 2026 with 2

10 titles across 15 years, averaging 0.7 a year. The last five years average 1.2 a year, above their long-run rate. 6 of those 15 years carry no credit on file.

Quality over time7 rated titles · bigger dots carry more votes
6789their average 7.7200020102020

Their 2020s work is their strongest, averaging 7.9 across 4 titles. The 5 titles since 2016 average 7.6, holding at their 7.7 overall. 4 of 7 rated titles sit above their 7.7 average.

Who they work with

Directors
  • Brian Knappenberger3
Writers
  • Brian Knappenberger3
Genres
  • Documentary8 of 8
  • History3 of 8
  • War2 of 8
  • Crime2 of 8

Names appearing on two or more of Luminant Media’s produced titles, across the 8 matched to OMDb. Cast is the top-billed few OMDb lists per title, so it is notable cast rather than a full cast list. A title can carry more than one genre, so the genre counts overlap.

Works with6 companies

Companies that appear alongside Luminant Media on the same productions. The number is how many titles they share.

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