Lily Hayes Kaufman is a NY based filmmaker and NYSCA 2025 grantee. Her feature documentary, OCCUPY CANNES (2025), from Executive Producers Julie Corman & Roger Corman, screened at Fantasia Film Festival, Sitges Film Festival, Brooklyn Horror and others. She co-wrote and directed INNARDS an award winning series of psychobiological comedy shorts selected to screen at the the Museum of The Moving Image, the Utah Arts Festival, the Lower East Side Film Festival. Kaufman wrote and directed the Web Series Rare Birds of Fashion which she developed as an original scripted comedy for NBC. She has contributed to Huffington Post, Fangoria, A Women’s Thing, Forbes, World Policy and the DOA Horror Anthology. Lily Hayes is a member of the Writers Guild of America East and serves on the WGA Awards Committee.
