Araceli Lemos

Araceli Lemos is a director and writer born in Athens, Greece and currently based in Los Angeles. Her debut feature, HOLY EMY, is premiering at Locarno 2021 and won the FirstCutLab as a work-in-progress. Her short film, Miguel Alvarez Wears a Wig, has screened at several festivals worldwide, including Tampere, Outfest and Leeds.

Araceli has worked as a documentary film editor on award winning features and on the KCET docu-series LostLA.

She holds an M.F.A. in Film Directing from CalArts as a Fulbright Scholar and a B.A. in Economic Science. She has been commissioned video work for the American Embassy in Greece, the label company Inner Ear, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, amongst others.