Tracey Lion-Cachet

Tracey Lion-Cachet was born and educated in Johannesburg, South Africa. She holds a bachelor's degree in art history and a post baccalaureate in psychology from Columbia University, New York. She currently resides in San Francisco, California. Tracey has received numerous recognition for her fiction writing. Her stories have been selected as finalists for the William Faulkner Writing Competition and the Tennessee Williams Fiction Contest. Tracey's short story, Noticed, was adapted for the screen by Limor Diamant and nominated for best film at Rome's International Film Festival. Her short script, Lulu, won best original script for Hollywood's Just4shorts Competition and Toronto's Romance Film and Screenplay Competition in Aug, 2017. Lulu is in post-production and stars the acclaimed French actor Didier Flamand together with Marina Tomé. Her first feature length screenplay, Leaving Graceland, was optioned by Opal Films. The project was selected for the international screenwriting contest, Plume et Pellicule, 2012. Leaving Graceland also won the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival Award in August, 2017. Tracey was commissioned by Cathaway Productions to write the screenplay adaptation for, Truth in the Ashes, and is currently working on a docu-fiction set in the Congo entitled, All Tomorrow's Children. Her project was selected as a finalist in 2014 for Switzerland's prestigious Villa Ruffieux Residency Program.