---
name: "Luna Carmoon"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/luna-carmoon"
fi1m_id: "luna-carmoon"
imdb_id: "nm9433167"
tmdb_id: 2448159
wikidata_id: "Q124021583"
roles: ["Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-03T03:32:20.652395+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Luna Carmoon

## Identity

Luna Carmoon

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/luna-carmoon
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** luna-carmoon
- **IMDb ID:** nm9433167
- **TMDB ID:** 2448159
- **Wikidata ID:** Q124021583
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_Carmoon, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124021583, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9433167/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2448159

Director. Born in Downham, Lewisham.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_Carmoon, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124021583, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9433167/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2448159

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Hoard*](https://film.one/film/hoard.md) (75)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Fi1m on Luna Carmoon

> Luna Carmoon makes abrasive films that stay close to bodies and untidy feelings. *Hoard* gives us reason to value her sympathy and strangeness, though she sometimes reaches for another shock when a relationship needs to develop.

In *Hoard* (2024), the accumulated mess cannot be separated neatly from the love attached to it. Luna Carmoon keeps us close to people whose behaviour is distressing, without softening them into easier company. We were unsettled by the film because clearing the clutter never feels like an adequate answer to what we see. It is a good, abrasive drama, and its sympathy survives even the stretches that test our patience.

Her first short, *Nosebleed* (2019), was followed by *Shagbands* (2020), a coming-of-age film that found colour on London estates. *Hoard*, her feature debut, develops her interest in sensation and memory, with the past recalled through physical sensations rather than explanatory speeches. She allows scenes to dwell on routine without insisting that each one advance the plot. At its best, that patience lets us watch people without being told what to think of them.

Her collaborators include cinematographer Nanu Segal and editor Rachel Durance. The tactile detail in *Hoard* keeps its emotional distress tied to bodies and surroundings; we are not simply waiting for somebody to explain what is wrong. Saura Lightfoot-Leon gives the film the steadiness that its writing sometimes lacks. Carmoon gets something valuable from letting her play Maria without making every action immediately comprehensible. The performance remains absorbing when the film’s pace wanders.

At 126 minutes, *Hoard* sometimes asks for more patience than it repays. A fresh provocation can stand in for a developing relationship, and spending longer with Maria does not always change our understanding of her. Those passages leave the actors doing work the writing should have done. Carmoon’s second feature, the horror film *To Make Ends Meat* (2026), is a plausible next step for someone so attentive to bodily discomfort. Start with *Hoard* if abrasive drama appeals, and be prepared for it to repeat itself.

## Biography

Luna Carmoon is an English screenwriter and film director. Her debut feature film *Hoard* (2023), which she wrote and directed, premiered at the 80th Venice International Film Festival in the Critics' Week section.

Born in Downham, Lewisham, Carmoon grew up on a council estate. She made her first short films, *Nosebleed* (2019) and *Shagbands* (2020), before developing *Hoard* from an earlier story written during the COVID-19 lockdown. The film received a Special Mention for Direction at the 2024 Luxembourg City Film Festival.

Carmoon has been selected for the BAFTA Breakthrough scheme. Her second feature, *To Make Ends Meat*, is in post-production.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, theguardian.com, variety.com, deadline.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Hoard* (2024), Fi1m 75, Director, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/hoard.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Hoard* (2024), Director, Writer — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/hoard.md)
- *Shagbands* (2020), Writer, Director
- *Nosebleed* (2018), Writer, Director
- *shortFLIX* (2018), series, Director, Writer
- *To Make Ends Meat*, Director

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