Lazarus X is an American filmmaker, writer, director, and showrunner working internationally across narrative film, episodic television, and art cinema. Formerly credited as Lamont Pierré, he has over two decades of experience in independent filmmaking, with work spanning cities such as Los Angeles, New York City, Atlanta, Miami, New Orleans as well as several countries throughout Europe and the Caribbean.

He is the founder of Arthouse International Studios and its accompanying streaming platform, Arthouse Plus+. Through long-running, widely viewed, and critically recognized projects, Lazarus X was a major early and frontline contributor to the Web Series Revolution, helping establish independently produced web series as a legitimate creative and cultural movement—particularly for Black and independent creators operating outside traditional studio systems.

Lazarus X is the creator of numerous scripted series, including Red Skin, Freefall, Miles + Cal, Kaleidoscope, Ghosts of Fort Greene, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You, Between Blunts & Love Songs, Black Love Future, A.D., Wards and the long-running art-cinema series A Beautiful Cruel Thing. Several of his series have received festival recognition and awards, with A Beautiful Cruel Thing, Wards, and Ghosts of Fort Greene earning accolades at independent film and web series festivals.

Between 2024 and 2026, he expanded further into international production, filming Season 2 of A Beautiful Cruel Thing across multiple European and Caribbean countries including Italy, France, Spain, Scotland, Puerto Rico, and the Netherlands. In 2025, he released GUAP, a scripted television series filmed in Naples, Italy, which he wrote, directed, and executive produced, marking his most recent episodic release and reinforcing his focus on internationally based storytelling.

In addition to his narrative work, Lazarus X is the creator and host of The ARTIST(s) TEMPLE Podcast, a reflective series centered on creativity, burnout, healing, and sustainable artistic practice. As of 2026, he continues active development and production on new series and feature projects including Kill Nirvana, Backwater, The Bloodhound & the Bail-Bound, Detective Naveed, I Never Asked for Red Roses, I Hear You Leaving, Florida Made Me Do It, The Lives of Men, The Exile of Three Kings, and …And Kingdoms for Broken Hearts.