In 2021, Luisa produced and co-directed the short film The Moths Will Eat Them Up alongside writer & co-director Tanya Modini. The Moths Will Eat Them Up was funded and supported by Screen Queensland as part of their RIDE (Respect, Inclusion, Diversity and Equality) Short Film Initiative, led by Unless Pictures, and had its world premiere at Brisbane International Film Festival in 2021. The Moths Will Eat Them Up was also an official selection at St Kilda Film Festival 2022 where it was nominated for Best Actor, Best Achievement in Sound Post-Production and Best Original Score. It won the Dendy Award for Best Live Action Australian Short Film and the Rouben Mamoulian Award for Best Director at Sydney Film Festival 2022. Recently, it received a 2022 AACTA nomination for Best Short Film.

In 2020, Luisa produced and directed her sophomore short film, Pools, alongside writer Alex Philp, marking their second film collaboration thus far. The film follows a young woman who takes a road trip to Brisbane to terminate her pregnancy alongside her reluctant mother. Pools was an official selection at Flickerfest International Short Film Festival 2021 and had its World Premiere in Bondi, Sydney in January 2021. Since then, Pools has screened in Brisbane and the Gold Coast as part of Flickerfest’s national tour and Queensland filmmaker showcase; Cinefest Oz 2021; Show Me Shorts 2021; Melbourne Women in Film Festival 2023 and Curiosa Shorts in Spain in 2023, where it won Best Film of the Month. Luisa is now developing Pools into a feature film alongside screenwriter Alex Philp. In 2023, Luisa was selected by Screen Queensland to attend Stowe Story Narrative Lab in Alabama, USA to develop the feature film script alongside Alex Philp.

Her debut short film Milk, which she produced and directed and co-wrote alongside Alex Philp, explores the intimacy of female friendships as a young woman learns to navigate her closest relationships amidst the Brisbane summer heat. Milk was an official selection at the Sydney Indie Film Festival and screened at Melbourne Lift-Off Film Festival Online in 2018.

She has completed various courses in filmmaking including Girls on Film: Creating Strong Female Characters at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS) in Sydney and an International Professional Certificate Program in Film and Television at the University of California in Los Angeles. Recently, she was selected for the QLD edition of AFTRS Talent Camp. Luisa has a passion for showcasing female stories and the complex bonds between women on screen.

Most recently, she produced the short films And the Ocean Agreed, written and directed by Tanya Modini, and Half Past Midnight, written by Kelly Holden and directed by Daniel Bibby. Both films are currently in post-production.