Biography

Lilia Spiegel is a high school student in Southern California.  Her films focus on issues surrounding loneliness, especially among her generation.  She tries to convey feelings of happiness and nostalgia to create a call to action.  Her documentary, Low Tech Friend, a film about young adults around the world struggling to forge lasting friendships in the age of social media, is premiering at the Coronado Island Film Festival in the winter of 2024.  The film won the prestigious "Award of Recognition" at the Best Shorts Film Competition.  Her short documentary, Drifting, follows a group of high school students who turn to fishing as a way to cope with graduating high school and leaving their past selves behind. It is an Official Selection at the Kids First Film Festival.  For more on her activism work on curing the loneliness epidemic, check out the organization she founded GenPals.