Luminosity Studio

Founded in 2007 by writer, director and producer, Reinier Krol, Luminosity Studio is an Australian-based film and television production company dedicated to storycraft and successfully bringing those projects from development through to distribution. Luminosity Studio is also the worldwide publisher of the popular, young adult book series, The Firenight Saga. We offer professional writing services (editing and assessment) for all writers of prose and screen.

Our list of credits includes numerous corporate training videos, TVCs, short films and audio/visual material for the New South Wales (Australia) Government. On the current Luminosity slate is the feature film, “The Killing Dark”, filming in Melbourne in 2023 and 2024, and the feature films “Sometimes the Rain” and “Precipice” scheduled for production later in 2024 and early 2025.

Luminosity Studio currently has several projects in development, including the feature films, “Hannah”, “Unblinded” the crime documentary “Without Prejudice”, book two in The Firenight Saga, “Firenight: Darkness Burning” and the full-length feature film produced almost entirely with puppetry, “The Immortal Princess”.

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The words and pictures in books and cinema are an organic portal into our deepest - and often, darkest - selves. Sometimes we find our tears. Sometimes our laughter. But as long as that journey in search of our own humanity remains, there will always be a need to tell great stories.
Reinier Krol

Reinier Krol

Producer
Director
Writer

Reinier Krol is an Australian writer/filmmaker with 25 years’ experience in the entertainment industry; working as a director and producer on various shorts, docos and corporate videos. His entry into the entertainment industry was as a lead actor in amateur theatre productions of "The Pirates of Penzance", "Oliver" and "The Pajama Game", before turning his attention to being 'behind the camera'.

In addition to The Firenight Saga, he has also written a number of feature-length screenplays and novellas. He published his first full-length novel, “Loch Ness” in 2000, before focusing on writing, directing and producing for the screen.

Current Projects

The Killing Dark

A self-harming teenage girl, at odds with her insufferable father, escapes from the torment of home… only to find herself trapped in the cruel and cunning web of a remorseless couple, kidnapping and torturing vulnerable girls for their own, macabre gratification. Inspired by a true story.

Sometimes the Rain

A student nurse with suicidal ideations becomes the fulltime caregiver of a 25 year-old, self-assured prankster who, suffering from Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS), has only six months to live.

Unblinded

A seemingly devoted husband receives a telephone call from his wife claiming she has taken their two children on a murder-suicide pact. He has 90 minutes to try and find them.

Precipice

While on a rented yacht with friends, a downcast young woman battling a torrent of inner demons becomes entombed alone, 90 feet underwater, confined inside a trapped air bubble caught in the sunken vessel after a sudden storm on the open ocean.

Hannah

A fragile young girl who suffers from monophobia wakes up isolated on a beach. Her friends are missing and she has no idea about how she got there.

The Immortal Princess

A misconstrued princess hiding in a pre-war provincial town and held captive by a heinous, giant master, unexpectedly falls in love with the local prankster as they plot to escape their unimaginable captivity and save the town from imminent destruction.

Firenight

In her battle against self-loathing, 17-year-old Sara Baines discovers an unlikely hero. Herself. Experiencing all the excitement of falling in love for the first time, she unearths an unimaginable adventure of forbidden passion with a courageous boy. Together they uncover a diabolical plan of murder, mystery and terror.

The Candlelight Project

The Candlelight Foundation has joined forces with Luminosity Studio to create The Candlelight Project; combining the power of social media and a worldwide internet audience to change the lives of everyday, courageous and often extraordinary people.

Loch Ness

Ed Shaw and a select team of scientists are sent to the Scottish Highlands to uncover the truth about one of the world’s greatest and most intriguing mysteries.