Lichelli Lazar-Lea

British filmmaker Lichelli Lazar-Lea was born in Trinidad and raised in the South of England. She moved to California when she was eighteen and attended SFSU where she received a BA in Directing. She relocated to Los Angeles to do an MFA in Producing at UCLA School of Theater Film and Television. Shortly thereafter and worked in production and as a director and producer's assistant for a few years while writing screenplays and making shorts in her free time.

As a writer-director Lichelli's short film Fact or Fiction was a finalist in the DGA Minority Directing Awards. Her last short, Stranded, was an official selection of the Palm Springs International Festival of Shorts and Market, at the Director's Cut in NYC, and was the 1st runner up at the Junior Hollywood Radio and Television Society Film Festival. Stranded was Lichelli's first time working with Antonio Del Prete and its success enabled them to finance their feature film entry, The Truth About Angels.

As a creenwriter Lichelli writes all genres, though she gravitates toward fish-out- of-water stories due to her diverse upbringing. She was awarded an honorable mention in the prestigious Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards for her caper-comedy screenplay, Killing Aunt Irma. Her psychological thriller The Left Hand was the 1st runner up at the Hollywood Black Film Festival. She was a fellow in Bill Cosby's Guy A. Hanks & Marvin H. Miller Screenwriting Program during which she wrote the epic romance Haight & Ashbury, inspired by her mother's love story with Jazz musician, Babatunde Lea.

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