Lauren Greenfield

Filmmakers · Social Studies (FX/Hulu, 2024)

Director of Social Studies, an unflinching look at a full school year lived through Los Angeles teenagers' own phones and social feeds.

Lauren Greenfield is a documentary filmmaker whose 2024 series Social Studies, released on FX and Hulu, follows a group of Los Angeles teenagers through a full school year using footage drawn largely from their own phones and social-media activity. Rather than reconstructing teen life from the outside, the series lets viewers see what a school year actually looks like through the feeds, messages, and posts teenagers generate and consume themselves — an unusually direct, screen-level view of how social media shapes daily adolescent life.