He started making movies at the age of 10 when an uncle gave him a Super-8mm camcorder. At 13 he already knew that he wanted to dedicate himself to the cinema and began to send applications for admission to the prestigious Film and Television School of the Southern California University. When he finished high school, at the age of 17, he had already made more than twenty short films.
At that time, his mother, interested in her son’s passion for cinema, and did not know anyone in the industry, decided to send a letter to the director Steven Spielberg, where he asked him about the young man’s possibilities and also sent him two short films that Luke had done in high school. Miraculously, the letter reached the prestigious director who not only read it and saw the footage, but also responded with a handwritten letter encouraging him to continue on that path.
In 1994 he finally graduated from the Film and Television School of the Southern California University, and the speakers at the graduation ceremony were coincidentally Steven Spielberg Y George Lucas; Luke He then had the opportunity to thank the director for his letter and the advice received.
In 1999, Luke co-wrote and directed the short film “The Right Hook“. The actor Adam Sandler and the producers Todd garner, Jack Giarraputo Y Greg silverman, they saw part of it and gave it to Greenfield the opportunity to make his first feature film called “The Animal“which was starred by Rob schneider.
His next job as a director and screenwriter was the feature film “The next door neighbor“(2004), which promoted the careers of its protagonists, many of them unknown faces until now. Its protagonists were Emile hirsch, Paul Dano, Timothy Olyphant, Olivia wilde, Chris marquette Y Elisha Cuthbert.
In 2008 he produced the comedy “Bad example“, whose protagonists were Paul rudd, Seann William Scott Y Elizabeth banks; at that time he also directed some telefilms and different episodes of the series “Aliens in America“.
His last work for the cinema has recently been released, which was the film “Something Borrowed“(2011), romantic comedy starring Ginnifer goodwin, Kate hudson Y Colin Egglesfield.
Nowadays Greenfield He is working on three different cinematographic projects, still in different stages of production.