Lydia Lovell is a media producer, director, and production/technology professional based in New York City. With over a decade of experience in directing, creative and audiovisual production management, and camera work, she has worked with Intel, GQ, The New York Times, WNET/PBS American Masters, World of Dance, and Harvard VES, among others.
She is currently the Senior Director, Technology at The Paley Center for Media.
Prior to her current role, she was the Technical Manager, Production at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Technical Director for the School of Creative & Performing Arts.
With a M.A. in Media Studies from The New School (New York, USA) and another M.A. in Investigation in Arts & Humanities from the Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha (Ciudad Real, Spain), Lydia is well-versed in both the creative and technical worlds of production, and excels in managing sustainable operations, building high-performing teams, and producing world class programming both recorded and live, virtual and on set.
She is particularly passionate about producing dance and nonfiction for film and TV. She has produced dance videos with the "Speaking in Dance" series for The New York Times, taught and filmed as part of a dance on video intensive for Fusion Dance Company in San Francisco, and has filmed a number of short films and live and recorded dance videos for independent dancers and filmmakers.
Films Lydia has filmed and produced have appeared in the Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema, WoNYC Film Festival, RM Film Festival, and Ruff Cuts NYC. The documentary film short "Molly & the Cards" she produced and directed was a finalist for the Audience Awards, streaming on the Fusion TV. The place film short "The Reservoir" she produced and directed was an Official Selection, Seven Wonders Silent Film Festival, showing on exhibition at the National Wool Museum.
Photo credit: Tom Legoff
