Charles de Lauzirika is an award-winning American documentarian, filmmaker and DVD/Blu-Ray producer. Lauzirika spent his early years in La Crescenta, California and attended Glendale College where he served as entertainment editor of In Focus, the college's weekly public access cable show. He also contributed to the school's weekly, El Vaquero, receiving several JACC student journalism awards for his work as editorial cartoonist, entertainment editor and editor-in-chief. Lauzirika later attended the renowned University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, where he wrote and directed a fully-funded 16mm sync sound film in the program's highly-competitive CNTV 480 Advanced Production Workshop; Lauzirika graduated in 1994. While attending USC film school, Lauzirika concurrently worked for numerous film companies, including Lucasfilm Ltd., Lightstorm Entertainment, Warner Bros., Silver Pictures and Scott Free Productions. While working as a story analyst for directors Ridley Scott and Tony Scott, Lauzirika was chosen by Ridley Scott to supervise and produce elaborate DVD special editions of Scott's classic films. Lauzirika's works have been nominated for Video and DVD Premiere Awards, and in 2003 his comprehensive nine-disc Alien Quadrilogy garnered the prestigious DVDX Award for Best Overall DVD, Classic Movie. In 2008, Lauzirika won two Saturn Awards for his work on "Blade Runner" at Fantastic Fest in Austin. Following "Crave," Lauzirika has been developing several directorial projects, including a feature adaptation of Philip K. Dick's futuristic drama "I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon," and an original medieval horror film entitled "The Grail."
Is a graduate from USC School of Cinema-Television.
Worked at Scott Free Entertainment in development for 2 years before becoming a DVD producer.
(January 2006) Currently finishing up producing the supplements on the New Directors Cut of Ridley Scotts Kingdom of Heaven. 4-disc DVD will be out in May 2006
(December 2003) Currently working on a Special Edition DVD for Blade Runner.
(December 2007) Recently completed work as restoration producer on Blade Runner: The Final Cut and DVD producer on Blade Runner 5-Disc Ultimate Collectors Edition, Twin Peaks 10-Disc Definitive Gold Box Edition and American Gangster: 3-Disc Collectors Edition. Currently developing two feature film projects, as director, the first of which is expected to begin principal photography in 2008.
