About

Erin Lovett is a writer, director and producer known for both indie genre films and documentaries that challenge and disturb the status quo.

In 2024, she directed her first narrative television feature for Lifetime with A DEADLY THREAT TO MY FAMILY, following the success of her independent short - THE KNOWING, a psychological horror film about infertility and reproductive choice. The film screened at more than a dozen genre festivals in the US and abroad, including the Oscar-qualifying HollyShorts, Portland Horror, Popcorn Frights, Vancouver Horror Show, Mexico's Mirada Corta and New Zealand's Terror-Fi festival, winning multiple awards including Best Horror, Best Lead Performance, and Best Film and Sound Editing. 

Over the past decade, Erin’s award-winning directing and producing work in documentary television and film includes THIS IS LIFE WITH LISA LING (CNN), DARK NET (Showtime) and TIGHTROPE: AMERICANS SEARCHING FOR HOPE (PBS). In 2021, she received a Producers Guild Award for DEFYING GRAVITY: THE UNTOLD STORY OF WOMEN'S GYMNASTICS (YouTube). Through a documentary lens, she's covered a range of subjects from religious cults to mob mentality to racial and social injustice. Her work has aired on HBO, Showtime, CNN, National Geographic, PBS and other major networks.

Raised in the Pacific Northwest, she now lives in Los Angeles where she is developing her next feature.