Lucido began making super-8 films at the age of 10 and is now an Assistant Professor of Communication teaching film production, film theory & aesthetics and scriptwriting at Western State College of Colorado.

His short film Chill Out won the National Wildlife Federation’s Chill Out: Climate Action on campus video award in 2010.

Jackson Sandwich, his documentary about his son Jackson’s autism spectrum disorder diagnosis, has been awarded a prestigious Cine Golden Eagle Award and has been broadcast on Public Television in North and South Carolina as well as Northern California.

Lucido received an Emmy nomination in 2000 for directing and producing, for prime-time broadcast, a one-hour documentary film on engineering wonders on Northern California’s Redwood Coast while employed as a producer at KEET TV, a PBS member station.

He earned his Master of Fine Art degree in Cinema from UNC-Greensboro and his BA in Theatre & Film from California State University, Humboldt.