Lance Mungia

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Lance Mungia (born 1972) is an American film director and screenwriter. He wrote and directed Six String Samurai and co-wrote and directed The Crow: Wicked Prayer (2005), the fourth film in The Crow series. Mungia grew up in Central California in a family that ran a rose-growing business and is of Mexican and European heritage. He studied film at Loyola Marymount University, where he made the short Garden for Rio (1996). The film screened at Sundance and helped him secure funding to finish Six String Samurai. He has directed music videos and, in 2013, directed In Time, a film about the band The Delgado Brothers. From 2009 to 2017, he was executive director of KGEM, a public access TV station. He co-founded Waking Universe Films with Cristina Mercado. In 2018 the company produced the documentary Third Eye Spies, which Mungia directed about Russell Targ. In 2022 he directed an episode of the animated mini-series Belonging. He has one child.