Lucy Kerr is a filmmaker, choreographer, and artist from Texas and based in New York. She was named one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film in Filmmaker Magazine in 2022. Her debut feature film, Family Portrait, garnered her the Boccalino d’Oro for Best Director at Locarno, the Best Director Award from Black Canvas Film Festival, the Best Picture, the Best Actress, and the Best Artistic Contribution Awards from Hainan IFF, the feature film grant from Austin Film Society, the AirFrance Prize from FIDLab, and the New Horizons Award from US in Progress. The film made its theatrical premiere at Metrograph after making its world premiere at Locarno and screening at festivals including Chicago IFF, El Gouna Film Festival, American Film Festival, Mannheim-Heidelberg, D’A Film Festival, Fest de Films de Femmes, among others. The film was lauded by the press for being “highly cinematic…an intoxicating portrait” - The Hollywood Reporter, “quietly haunting” - Screen Daily, and “one of this year's best” - The Village Voice. Kerr’s short films have screened at IFFRotterdam, FIDMarseille, San Sebastian, DocLisboa, and others. Kerr was a 2023 Flaherty Fellow, she was a 2024 resident at Ikusmira Berriak with Tabakalera/SSIFF, and she is a part of Torino Feature Lab 2025. She received an MFA in Film/Video and Art from California Institute of the Arts in 2020.