Lucy Cohen
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Represented By
Elinor Burns
Associate - Nina Amini
nina@casarotto.co.ukAssistant - Guiled Osman
guiled@casarotto.co.ukLucy is a London-based writer/director. After studying History followed by Print Journalism, she worked in documentary television for 15 years before making the documentary feature, Kingdom of Us, in 2017. The film won the Grierson award for Best Documentary at London Film Festival, was nominated for a BAFTA for Outstanding Debut and acquired worldwide by Netflix. In 2017 she was selected for Guiding Lights, the UK film industry’s leading mentorship programme. In 2018, she was named a BAFTA Breakthrough Brit and in 2019 one of Campaign’s Top 10 Directors for commercial work. Her debut fiction feature, Edge of Summer, produced by Dorothy St Pictures, was backed by BBC Films and the BFI. After being chosen as part of the British Council’s ‘Great8’ at Cannes, it premiered at Glasgow Film Festival in 2024 and is currently on an international festival tour including Munich, Ghent, Seminci and Camerimage. Lucy is now developing a new feature project with BBC Films.