Lucy Cohen is an award-winning filmmaker and BAFTA Breakthrough recipient. Directing across documentary, narrative and commercials, she creates lyrical, emotive films, prized for their observational detail and authenticity. With a sensitivity to atmosphere and tone, she immerses the audience in a world that stays with them long after viewing, enabling them to reflect not only on the story and characters but also on themselves.

Lucy’s fiction feature debut, EDGE OF SUMMER, backed by BBC Films and the BFI, premiered at Glasgow Film Festival in March 2024 and is currently making its international festival tour. “Infused with a raw naturalism” (Screen Daily); “A wonderfully sensual film” (Eye for Film) and “A truly remarkable feature” (The Upcoming); it’s a hauntingly delicate drama teetering between childhood and the confusion of adulthood, set in 1991 on the Cornish coast, with an 11 year old girl, Evie at its centre.

Having trained as a print journalist, Lucy worked in factual television for ten years before her extraordinary feature documentary, KINGDOM OF US (acquired worldwide by Netflix), earned her a BAFTA nomination for Outstanding Debut. The film won the Grierson Award for Best Documentary at the London Film Festival and was nominated at the BIFAs and the MIND Media Awards.

Lucy’s 2015 beautifully crafted short doc LIFE IN FILM, about an elderly lady’s love of the film Doctor Zhivago, was supported by the BFI National Film Archive’s Luminous campaign.

Her branded work includes THIS IS PARENTHOOD, a docu-series for WaterWipes, for which Campaign magazine named her one of the Top 10 Directors of 2019; shorts for breast cancer charity Future Dreams; and Mind’s Time To Change.