Lily Gontard
Research, Writer
Lily Gontard
Lily is grateful to be living as a settler in Whitehorse, the traditional territories of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and Ta’an Kwäch’än Council. Lily is a documentary filmmaker and writer. Her short documentary “Whalefall” (November 2021) was screened at seven film festivals in Canada and the UK. Her first short documentary “Inspiration in Nature” was screened at seven film festivals around the world. Her non-fiction book Beyond Mile Zero (Harbour Publishing, 2017) was a collaboration with photographer Mark Kelly. BMZ won the 2017 gold Foreword Indies travel writing award and the 2018 silver IPPY travel essay award. Her fiction and poetry have been published in various literary magazines and long-listed for the CBC Poetry Prize and the Guernica Prize for Literary Fiction.
Title: Northern Tails
Genre: children’s web series
Producer: Shot in the Dark Media (Little Brown Bird Entertainment)
Role: writer (one episode)
Release date: 2024
Title: Whalefall
Genre: documentary
Roles: director, producer, camera and sound
Release date: November 2021
Time: 9:17
Awards: finalist for two film festivals
Title: Inspiration in Nature
Genre: Documentary
Roles: director, producer, editor and camera
Released: January 2021
Time: 4 minutes 38 seconds
Awards: won the Best Short award at two film festivals
Title: Perfect Family
Genre: feature-length family Christmas
Optioned by: 3DEvolution
Role: co-screenwriter (with Ken Green)
Projects in pre-development:
- 60 Stitches: web series (co-writer and co-creator with Ken Green)
- The Ferals: comedic series (co-writer and co-creator with Ken Green)
- Hunting Ducks: feature-length romantic comedy (co-writer and co-creator with Tonya Mallet)
- Santafest Destiny: feature-length family Christmas (co-writer and co-creator with Ken Green)
- Gutleuthof (The House of the Good): dramatic historical series (co-writer and co-creator with Tonya Mallet)
