He only started calling himself a filmmaker about three months after when he finished his first film, Smokin’ Fish. He was raised by his mom, alongside dogs, chickens, goats, raccoons and coyotes in a small cabin with no phone, electricity, or running water at the end of a long dirt road in Northern California. He studied Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz and has lived abroad in several countries. Before filmmaking, he had a wide range of jobs from commercial fisherman to carpenter to getting textiles printed in India, but whenever possible, has sought gainful unemployment. Filmmaking interests Luke because it combines the workload of managing a business with the income of being unemployed. Luke, along with his friend Cory, started on this film about six years ago, and it is just now finished.