LYDIA BRUNA

Lydia is an award winning director and writer from Germany.

She’s passionate about making films for broad audiences.
Lydias favourite stories to tell, are the lager-than-life ones: mystical, comedic, historical, fantastical, surreall or coming-of-age. 

2016, after graduating successfully from the well-known Bournemouth Film School in England, she started off working for television by writing and directing 5 short films for the international EBU children’s drama exchange. Her award winning shorts, representing Germany in the exchange, have been screened on television in more then six European countries and some of Asia. 

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This lead to her directing for the two most popular children’s TV-series in Germany from 2020-2023: Schloss Einstein and Die Pfefferkörner (the Peppercorns). For the later she was the youngest director to have worked for them in their 20 years of production.

In autumn 2022 Lydia was invited as a juror for the BAFTA for Children and Young People in the category direction. 

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In 2023 she had her successful prime time premier by directing 3 episodes for the crime series Soko Leipzig (Leipzig Homicide)the season of which was awarded with the Jupiter Award.
Her special comedy episode ‘Mit einem Bein’ was especially honoured as part of the series' 500th episode anniversary and screened at an open air with over 1000 viewers.

In 2024 Lydia returned for 5 more episodes and completed work on her first feature film for the ARD series ‘Die Bestatterin’.  
 

Currently she develops a historical war-drama "you know, what I know" and a post-apocalyptic children- and youth series with the title “Rust City”. 

Lydia lives in Berlin.