Lauralee Farrer has been making films professionally for over thirty years. As president and principal filmmaker of Burning Heart Productions, she began her own film work with Laundry and Tosca, an award-winning documentary that also prompted an adjacent career in public speaking. The feature-length documentary that followed, The Fair Trade, was chosen as the launch film for the Film Baby, Ryko, and Warner series of "Powerful Films." Farrer was cowriter and director on the feature narrative Not That Funny starring Tony Hale, and writer/director on the narrative feature Praying the Hours (2021). Each film was welcomed into multiple festivals where they all won awards, including top best feature and audience favorite honors, and have continued to have lives including and beyond international distribution. Events with film screenings, music, social activism awareness, and Farrer's public speaking were presented in the years following at film festivals, panels, conferences, colleges, summits, churches, and other professional and private environments. Her current work, the Wise Woman Project, consists of twin features on the role of the female elder in contemporary Western life.

She was founding director and Chief Storyteller of FULLER studio and magazine (2015-2020)—multiple award-winning digital and print content platforms featuring topics as diverse as race, women, culture, thriving, lament, politics, American internment camps, ancient spiritual practices, and film criticism. She conceived and directed most of the site's then-over 3000 original video, podcast, and text assets, including six original video series that featured Directors Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, David Lowery, Eliot Rausch, Pete Docter, and Scott Derrickson; cultural influencers such as Krista Tippett, Rowan Williams, Brenda Salter McNeil, David Brooks, Father Greg Boyle, and Walter Brueggemann; and cultural personalities such Tony Hale, Keri Tombazian, and Bobette Buster.

Much of the material from which her directing and screenwriting emerges comes from Farrer's seminal freelance work for humanitarian organizations. This work took her to Spain when Franco died, to Kenya during the droughts of 1981 and 1991, to Somalia when the war broke out, and to Uganda to write about early outbreaks of AIDS and the plight of its orphans. She wrote of the Sisters of Charity in Ethiopia, was in Moscow when the 1991 coup took place, and when Leningrad became St. Petersburg again. She was in East Germany before and after the wall went down, in Mexico City to write about cultures of poverty, and in U.S. cities like Philadelphia, Houston, Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Boston to write about American life. She lived in a Benedictine community in Denver, Colorado for three years—a providential experience that formed much of the basis for her book Praying the Hours in Ordinary Life and feature film, Praying the Hours.

Farrer was born in Hollywood, California, and resides in Southern California.