Lilliana Rose Lyons is a filmmaker working between Stockholm, Sweden and New York City. Originally from Chicago, she came to film not through formal training but through practice spending a decade editing documentary films in New York, moving from intern to editor at Radical Media. 

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When she moved to Sweden, she began writing and directing her own work. Her short films What Brought You Back? (2021) and Reach (2023) explore individuation, embarrassment, and rejection, and have screened internationally, winning at festivals including Rotterdam and Boden. Her latest short, Free Magic (2025), is a silent Super 8 film about a street magician in New York City. It is a portrait of loneliness, persistence, and the quiet dignity of making something even when no one is watching.

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She is currently in development on her first feature, The Great Noise, a film set in late 1600s Sweden during the period of mass witchcraft trials, developed through a 2025 lab with New York Women in Film and Television.