Lilian T. Mehrel
Honeyjoon
Lilian T. Mehrel is an award-winning writer & director with a visionary sense of feeling and humor. Her debut feature, Honeyjoon, premiered at Tribeca and won the Tribeca AT&T Untold Stories Award. It has screened at 40+ festivals, winning multiple audience awards and jury awards for Best Feature. It opens in theaters June 10. Lilian’s films have also screened at Palm Springs, Sao Paolo Mostra, Clermont-Ferrand, and the AmPav Emerging Filmmaker Showcase at Cannes. Her awards and selections include SFFILM Rainin, TorinoFilmLab, Film Independent Episodic Lab, Sloan Award, Nancy Malone Directing Award, Geri Ashur Screenwriting Award, Film Fatales Episodic Directing Shadow Workshop, CineQuaNonLab, NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, 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.