Lila Films is an independent production company that crafts engaging, entertaining and educational media. Our award-winning team researches, writes, produces, designs, directs, shoots, edits and delivers the multimedia you need to make your mark in the world. Whether you want an educational video or documentary film, fundraising piece or PSA, trailer or pilot, corporate spot or highlight reel about your business, let us help you take your idea from acorn to mighty oak.
Deborah Fryer started Lila Films in 2004 after spending 11 years in the film industry freelancing for a variety of clients including NOVA, Frontline, PBS, History Channel, Discovery Channel, Travel Channel, HGTV, Turner Broadcasting, American Experience, MSNBC, Warren Miller Films, National Audubon Society, and the U.S. Department of Energy.
Lila is the Sanskrit word for play or dance. It describes the constant tension between concealing and revealing, the continuous movement between light and darkness, shadow and substance, joy and sorrow, life and death. Lila is the interconnectedness of all things. That is the essence of our films.