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Lena Dunham

Lena Dunham

2 films · 154 frames · top-billed in 1 · 20112023

Born 13 May 1986 · New York, New York, USA

Lena Dunham is an American writer, director, actress, and producer. She is the creator, writer, and star of the HBO television series Girls (2012–2017), for which she received several Emmy Award nominations and two Golden Globe Awards. Dunham also directed several episodes of Girls and became the first woman to win the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Comedy Series. She started her career writing, directing, and starring in her semi-autobiographical independent film Tiny Furniture (2010), for which she won an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 154 frames · top-billed in 1 · 20112023

  • Film Independent Spirit Awards2011
  • Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – Comedy Series2012

How their films are shot

Measured across 154 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Lena takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 2 films we hold, 41% of their frames are day, 45% natural — the look of the work Lena takes.

Time of day

Day41%
Night30%
Interior24%
Golden hour4%

Lighting

Natural45%
Low key28%
High key26%

Shot size

Medium47%
Closeup32%
Wide12%
Fullbody5%

Camera angle

Eye level81%
High angle10%
Low angle7%

Mood

Neutral67%
Tense11%
Nostalgic6%
Lonely5%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 154 frames from Lena Dunham's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.