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Henry Lu

Henry Lu is a commercial and documentary director based between New York and Toronto, represented in the US by Moxie Pictures and in Canada by Soft Citizen.

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Production company & representation
Moxie Pictures
Production company · US · verified Jul 2026
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Recent press & creds
Google WoodTurner shortlisted at 2022 AICP Next Awards
AICP Next Awards · 2022 · award
Indie Spirit Award for RUN TO THE EAST
Indie Spirit Award · award
Webby Awards for Google Search On short films
Webby Awards · award
Selected clients
GoogleCanadian Olympic CommitteeNikePizza HutESPNFordVWRBCDeutsche TelekomMitsubishi

Bio & background

Henry Lu is a commercial and documentary director based between New York and Toronto, represented in the US by Moxie Pictures and in Canada by Soft Citizen. A former producer at Wieden + Kennedy Portland and Tokyo, he signed with Moxie in 2003. His commercial work includes multiple Google Search On and Grow with Google films—among them Skatepark (72andSunny), Blind Woodturner, Glam Doll Donuts, Agrology, and Interview Warmup—plus campaigns for Nike, ESPN, Skype, Ford, VW, Powerade, Deutsche Telekom, Pizza Hut (2013 Super Bowl spot per Moxie), History Channel, Leon’s, Nabob, Open Wine, Enbridge Gas, RBC, Mitsubishi, War Child Canada, and the Canadian Olympic Committee. Trade coverage highlights the 2012 War Child PSA “Jam” (john st.), in which wartime violence resolves into crayons and children’s drawings, and the COC’s #WeAreWinter platform for Sochi 2014—TV spots and athlete mini-documentaries including Crossroads on Kaillie Humphries—plus Olympic athlete training web series for 2012 and 2014. His feature documentary RUN TO THE EAST, on Native American high-school runners, won an Indie Spirit Award; Google Search On shorts earned Webbys, and WoodTurner was shortlisted at the 2022 AICP Next Awards. Signature work favors patient, cinematic observation of real people over high-concept comedy or effects.

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Awards
  • Google WoodTurner shortlisted at 2022 AICP Next Awards
    AICP Next Awards · 2022
  • Indie Spirit Award for RUN TO THE EAST
    Indie Spirit Award
  • Webby Awards for Google Search On short films
    Webby Awards
Press
  • Mitsubishi - Henry Lu
    LBB · 2017
  • #WeAreWinter Films Are a Bold Take on Canada’s Most Defining Season
    Canadian Olympic Committee / olympic.ca · 2014
  • Crossroads - Kaillie Humphries Documentary
    Ads of the World · 2014
  • Moxie Pictures Director Henry Lu Rides Ceaseless Determination for Google
    SHOOTonline · 2013
  • Moxie’s Henry Lu Fights Gunshots with Crayons
    LBB · 2012
  • Do nothing
    Ads of the World · 2009
  • Henry Lu Signs with Moxie Pictures
    Ad Age · 2003