Lydia Dean Pilcher is a filmmaker based in New York City. She has produced more than 35 feature films, including 11 films with internationally acclaimed director Mira Nair. She is a two-time Emmy winner and an Academy Award nominee for Cutie & the Boxer. Her recent films as a producer include The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks for HBO and The Queen of Katwe for Disney, starring Lupita Nyong’o and David Oyelowo. The World War II drama A Call to Spy, which she directed, is out now in theaters nationwide and on VOD through IFC, and the 1920s-set historical drama Radium Girls, starring Joey King and Abby Quinn, which Pilcher co-directed with Ginny Mohler, is in select theaters and virtual cinemas on October 23 through Juno Films.
