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DL Guerra (Drew Lewis) is an award-winning director of commercials, music videos, film and television. He’s the founder and director of Black Canvas™, a Los Angeles based production company, editorial house, motion design and animation studio, that continues to carve its own path in the entertainment industry. DL has a strong background in post-production and lends that to his strengths on set as he’s always thinking about the edit. He’s created content for some of the world’s largest brands including Delta Air Lines, P&G, Capital One and more. He began his journey as a filmmaker at the age of twelve in Houston, Texas, when his father brought home a VHS-C camcorder that he had won in a raffle. It wasn’t long before he began experimenting with making his own short films, and by the time he graduated high school he had written, directed and edited a dozen of them. In 2010, Drew graduated from Full Sail University with a Bachelor of Science in Film Studies. DL works as a writer, director, producer and editor for hire in Los Angeles.

During the two years of juggling entrepreneurialism and freelance video work in Houston, he directed a short film called H-Town Up & Down, that was an official selection at the 2011 Austin Film Festival. It wasn’t long after visiting Texas’ Capital City for the film festival that DL decided to move to Austin, in pursuit of its filmmaker-friendly community.

It was in Austin where his career really grew legs as he directed more advertisements for brands and agencies, started working with more and more artists on bigger budgeted music videos, and used it all to help fuel his own film projects. In 2014, DL was awarded the title “Filmmaker of the Year” for the city of Austin by RAW: natural born artists.


In December of 2015, DL relocated to Los Angeles, CA, where he continues to pursue his career today. In between commercial projects, he is developing a slate of original film and television projects. In 2018 he wrote and directed a stop-motion short film called Fanman’s Basement, which was selected into 15 film festivals, was nominated in two categories and won Best Animation at the KAPOW Intergalactic Film Festival in North Hollywood. In the years following, he’s directed docu-series, countless animated and live-action advertisements as well as one-of-a-kind music videos for various artists. In the summer of 2022, DL wrote and directed a short film titled The Traveler about a prehistoric hunter-gatherer searching for purpose in a strange and unfamiliar world. The film was shot on location in San Bernardino Forest and the Mojave Desert, and had its world premiere at the 2023 Mammoth Film Festival, where it was nominated for Best Genre Short, Best Actor, and won the Audience Award.