Lydia Dean Pilcher
Lydia Dean Pilcher is a film and television Producer/Writer/Director, and founder of Cine Mosaic, a leading production company with business partners in the US, Europe, India, Turkey, Africa and the Middle East. Pilcher is a two time Emmy Award winner and Academy Award nominee for "Cutie & The Boxer”; and a Golden Globe nominee for 3 HBO Films', "Iron Jawed Angels" directed by Katja von Garnier; and "Normal," directed by Jane Anderson, and "You Don't Know Jack," directed by Barry Levinson.
Pilcher has produced over 40 feature films for many auteur directors including Gina Prince-Bythewood, Wes Anderson, Wayne Wang, and George Wolfe, including twelve films in a longstanding relationship with director Mira Nair.
In 2018, Pilcher produced and co-directed the feature film, “Radium Girls” starring Joey King and Abby Quinn, with executive producer Lily Tomlin. In 2020 she directed “A Call to Spy,” a character-driven thriller, based on true stories of women who worked as spies in Churchill’s Secret Army during the French Resistance of WWII. Released by IFC in the U.S. and by Netflix internationally. the film stars Radhika Apte (“Sacred Games”–Netflix) as Noor Inayat Khan..
In 2023, Pilcher completed a multi-screen film, "Homing Instinct," which she produced, directed and adapted from the story by Dani McClain in the anthology, "Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements." Pilcher subsequently adapted the award-winning film into a cinematic installation which has exhibited at Kleinert James Arts Center in Woodstock, NY, Emerson Arts, and Governors Island Arts. The installation is now touring and showing in museums and galleries across the US.
Pilcher has an extensive track record creating innovative cross industry, multi-stakeholder collaborations to drive change in the entertainment industry. She is Founder of PGA Women's Impact Network and Co-Founder of PGA Green, which promotes sustainable production practices. She Co-Chairs The Director's Guild of America Sustainable Future Committee, and co-leads the Writers Guild of America /Producers Guild Climate Storytelling Working Group.
In 2016 Pilcher co-authored, “The Ms. Factor: The Power of Female Driven Content.” As an adjunct professor at NYU Tisch Graduate Film Institute, Pilcher designed and has taught a seminar in cultural strategy, “The Audience is in Revolt.”
In 2024 Pilcher is teaching an interdisciplinary graduate course she designed for Columbia University’s Climate School and School of the Arts: "Climatic Change: Storytelling Arts, Zeitgeist, and our Future."isis.