Lilian T. Mehrel is an award-winning writer & director with a visionary sense of feeling and humor.
She is the winner of the Tribeca AT&T Untold Stories Award for her debut feature, Honeyjoon, which premiered at the 2025 Tribeca Festival. Lilian’s other films have premiered at Clermont-Ferrand, Tribeca, and the AmPav Emerging Filmmaker Showcase at Cannes. She was selected for the SFFILM Rainin Grant 2025, the TorinoFilmLab ComedyLab, CineQuaNonLab, Film Independent Episodic Lab, Sloan Episodic Fellowship, TFI Labs with YouTube/Google and Warner Media, and the Sony Pictures Classics / Marcie Bloom Fellowship.
Lilian makes audiences laugh and cry with her stunning swirl of comedic and emotional cinema. She earned her MFA from NYU Tisch Grad Film with a PDS Fellowship, and her BA from Dartmouth with a Senior Fellowship. She has been featured in Variety, Vogue, The Hollywood Reporter, IndieWire, Cinecittà, and The New York Times.
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