Lilly
LILLY TRAILER
LILLY is a deeply emotional, political drama starring Academy Award nominee Patricia Clarkson in the title role. Tony award winner John Benjamin Hickey plays her beloved husband Charles and Tony award winner Thomas Sadoski portrays Lilly’s brilliant civil rights attorney Jon Goldfarb, now streaming on NETFLIX.
Based on the true story of working-class hero Lilly Ledbetter, an Alabama tire factory supervisor whose goal is to lift her family into the middle class. After learning that she’s being paid significantly less than her male peers, Lilly fights bullies and bureaucrats through courts and Congress in a successful landmark battle for equal pay. President Obama names his first piece of legislation, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, for her persistence and bravery.
LILLY is the story of an ordinary woman who galvanizes social change at great personal cost through her extraordinary desire for justice. While LILLY’s narrative is illuminated through the lens of gender discrimination, the film is a roadmap for how to fight against all monolithic systems of oppression. LILLY shows us that the only way to stop tyranny is to stand up to it, truly a movie for the moment.
Selected as the BEST OF THE FEST at the 2025 Palm Springs International Film Festival and the BEST SOCIAL JUSTICE DRAMA at the 2025 Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Secretary Hillary Clinton, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Obama Foundation graced our theatrical premieres, followed by LILLY’s release in 90 cities. Now streaming on Netflix where it’s been voted, “Most Liked” movie. Variety calls LILLY one of the “BEST OVERLOOKED FILMS of 2025.
LILLY was independently financed from a pool of activated investors and donors, primarily mature women. A film about a woman over 60, starring a woman over 60, written and directed by a woman over 60, produced by women in their 50’s and 60’s, with exclusively female post-production and music departments, from start to finish, the legacy of Lilly Ledbetter powered our journey.
For more information visit: www.LillyMovie.com and follow @LillyMovie on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and Tiktok.
INTERVIEWS
Ted Hope 5 questions: https://open.substack.com/pub/tedhope/p/this-is-the-inspiration-we-need
The Persistent: https://www.thepersistent.com/email/3facdd7c-efc9-4701-ae15-c3e540a8933c/
Women in Hollywood: https://open.substack.com/pub/womenandhollywood/p/lilly
Alliance of Women Journalists: https://awfj.org/blog/2025/05/01/spotlight-may-2025-rachel-feldman-filmmaker-lilly/
The Women’s Eye Podcast: https://www.thewomenseye.com/2025/05/28/twe-365-rachel-feldman-on-lilly-movie/
BOXOFFICE PODCAST / Chad Kennerk “On Equal Terms: LILLY Writer/Director Rachel Feldman Brings Fair Pay into Focus” https://www.boxofficepro.com/on-equal-terms-lilly-writer-director-rachel-feldman-brings-fair-pay-into-focus/