Lauren Elizabeth Hood has been a well-respected producer, line producer and DGA UPM for the past eleven years. She is a member of the Producers Guild of America, IATSE Local 871, Directors Guild of America, and ASCAP. She owns her own production companies and is known for her love of feature films and the production office. She travels around the world filming in countries such as South Africa and Thailand, and has filmed all around the United States. She is most known for working on projects later released on Networks such as: Syfy, Lifetime, BET, Amazon, Sony, Fuze, TV One, etc. Lauren currently enjoys working on features produced by Miramax.
Lauren comes from the music industry, singing from an incredibly young age. She enjoyed working with many large scale music festivals and concerts like the Grammy’s and MTV Music Awards.
She graduated from Belmont University in Nashville, TN, with a Bachelor’s degree in the Entertainment Industry. She then received an Associate’s degree in film while concentrating on producing. She excelled in several invite only extracurricular programs such as Belmont West 2007 (Belmont’s Los Angeles Prestigious Internship Program) and LA’s American Pavilion 2010. She also earned certificates in Entrepreneurship from Gateway College in 2002 and in Film Producing from the UCLA School of Theatre, Film, and Television’s Professional Program in 2011.