about

writer & director

Lilian T. Mehrel is an award-winning writer & director with a visionary sense of feeling and humor.

She is the winner of the biggest film production prize in the world for her debut feature, Honeyjoon, which premiered at Tribeca and 50 festivals, winning the Tribeca AT&T Untold Stories Award and multiple audience and jury awards. It is now in theaters with Utopia’s Circle. Lilian’s films have also screened at Clermont-Ferrand and the AmPav Emerging Filmmaker Showcase at Cannes. She was selected for the SFFILM Rainin Grant, TorinoFilmLab ComedyLab, Film Independent Episodic Lab, Sloan Award, Nancy Malone Directing Award, Geri Ashur Screenwriting Award, NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, CineQuaNonLab, Film Fatales Episodic Directing Shadow Workshop, TFI Labs with YouTube/Google and Warner Media, and the Marcie Bloom Fellowship.

Lilian earned her MFA from NYU Tisch Grad Film with a PDS Fellowship, and her BA from Dartmouth with a Senior Fellowship. She also enjoys hip hop dance.