Lilian T. Mehrel is an award-winning writer and director with a visionary sense of feeling and humour. Lilian is the winner of the 2024 Tribeca - AT&T Presents: Untold Stories for her debut feature in development, Honeyjoon. A US-EU co-production with Portugal, her film was awarded $1million, and will have its US premiere at the 2025 Tribeca Festival. It was developed at the TorinoFilmLab 2024 ComedyLab and CineQuaNonLab 2024 Storylines. Lilian makes audiences laugh and cry with her funny, hopeful swirl of cinema. Her films have premiered at Clermont-Ferrand and Tribeca, and starred talent from HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm. Lilian earned her MFA from NYU Tisch Grad Film, and her BA from Dartmouth with a Senior Fellowship. A mixed-ethnicity daughter of immigrants, Lilian also authored and illustrated a family memoir and is a PD Soros Fellow. She has been featured in Variety, Cinecittà, ScreenDaily, and The New York Times.
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