https://www.ldpilcher.com/about daily 0.75 2026-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61091cccbda5aa4c04075063/1628271912670-2LWJMP1CMPK91JRVVHDO/lydia3.png About - BIO Lydia Dean Pilcher is a filmmaker, multidisciplinary artist and cultural strategist. A two time Emmy-winning, Academy Award nominated Producer, she founded Cine Mosaic, a leading film & television production company based in New York City. With extensive experience in international co-production. Pilcher brings her vision to the dynamic world of global storytelling in her work and practice as an educator. In 2024 she co-founded Global Rise: Stories for the Future inspired by her interdisciplinary teaching of storytelling arts at the Columbia Climate School in New York. With a background in painting, photography, and journalism, Pilcher attended NYU Graduate Institute of Film and TV. She began her career directing documentaries and working in production, which led to an adventurous creative producing career supported by a deal with HBO Films ( producer credits below). In 2018 Pilcher co-directed the feature, Radium Girls, starring Golden Globe nominee Joey King and Abby Quinn, with executive producers Lily Tomlin & Jane Wagner. Radium Girls screened at Tribeca Film Festival, followed by a theatrical release in Fall 2020, and national impact campaign supported by Erin Brokovich, The Sierra Club, and Sloan Science on Screen, before launching on Netflix and now Amazon for international distribution. In 2019, Pilcher directed the international feature, A Call to Spy, a female-driven World War II spy thriller based on the true stories of Noor Inayat Khan, Vera Atkins, and Virginia Hall, filmed in Budapest. The movie released internationally in 2020 (IFC Films in US), and is currently streaming on Amazon Prime. Moving in new directions, in 2022 Pilcher wrote and directed a science fiction film, Homing Instinct, based on the short story by Dani McClain from the anthology, Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements. She adapted her award-winning film into a multi-screen cinematic installation that premiered in a solo exhibition and 80 screenings at Kleinert James Arts Center supported by Silver Sun Foundation in conjunction with the Woodstock Film Festival. It now exhibits in galleries and museums most recently the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland. As an award-winning producer, Pilcher has worked with auteur directors including Gina Prince-Bythewood, Wes Anderson, Barry Levinson, Katja Von Garnier, Ritesh Batra, Kathryn Bigelow, George Wolfe, and she has produced twelve films and series in a longstanding collaboration with international director Mira Nair. Their most recent work includes the feature, Queen of Katwe for Disney (filmed in Uganda and South Africa) and the six-hour mini-series for BBC/Netflix, A Suitable Boy set in India, based on the novel by Vikram Seth (Netflix/International), filmed in Lucknow and Maheshwar, India. Pilcher is a co-founder of Producer’s Guild of America Sustainabilty Task Force, PGA Women’s Impact Network, and she serves as a Chair of the DGA Sustainable Future Committee. She is a member of DGA, WGA, PGA, AMPAS, and ATAS. Pilcher designed and has taught Audience and Cultural Strategy at Tisch NYU Graduate Institute of Film & TV. In 2024 she taught an interdisciplinary graduate level course she designed for Columbia University’s Climate School and School of the Arts: Climatic Change: Storytelling Arts, Zeitgeist, and our Future. 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