Talent Guide

Lilian T. Mehrel

  • Discipline:Writer
  • Program Year:Episodic Lab 2025, Grants and Awards 2025

Bio

Lilian T. Mehrel is an award-winning writer & director with a visionary sense of feeling and humor. She won the Tribeca AT&T Untold Stories Award for her debut feature Honeyjoon, which premiered at Tribeca. She was selected for the SFFILM Rainin Grant, TorinoFilmLab, CineQuaNonLab, Warner Media/TFI Co/Lab and a Sony Pictures Classics / Marcie Bloom Fellowship. Her films have also premiered at Clermont-Ferrand and the American Pavilion Emerging Filmmaker Showcase at Cannes. She earned her MFA from NYU Tisch Grad Film with a PDS Fellowship and her BA from Dartmouth with a Senior Fellowship.

Current Project

Baddies

Logline

A (romantic) comedy series about the team who works at Baddies — a dating app using behavioral science to undo their bad rap, beat the competition, oh and help people find love. If they can figure it out for themselves first.