Lily (she/they)

Lily Drummond is an Adelaide-raised and based screenwriter, director, and screen PhD candidate at Flinders University. Her films include ‘With Love, Lottie,’ ‘Hypothetically, the End,’ ‘The Bear Hunt,’ and ‘Illustrating Sam Newton,’ which have screened at festivals such as Slamdance, Sydney Film Festival, Raindance, SXSW Sydney, St Kilda Film Festival, Oska Bright, Melbourne Queer, Vancouver Queer, and Mardi Gras Film Festival.

Lily is queer, and lives with a rare neuromuscular disorder and is neurodivergent, which informs her approach to storytelling. Her work champions joyful, complex, authentic disabled and queer characters, and she pushes for deeper representation and inclusion in Australian film.

Lily’s PhD is examining disability representation in the screen industry, specifically researching screenwriting consultation practices to reflect disabled lived experience in narrative features.