Lisa Jilg was born in Munich. She studied cinematography at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy and graduated in 2024 with the feature film VENA.
Her last short film DIGNITY KEEPER was nominated for the German Short Film Award and can currently be seen in the Arte Mediathek alongside with her short film VIKA. In 2023, as part of the ZDF Kleines Fernsehspiel, she accompanied four aspiring police officers from the Berlin Police Academy for a year. The documentary Portrait about the designer William Fan was part of the opening of the Berlin Fashion Week and is now available in the ARD Mediathek.
2024 she won the Michael Ballhaus price for VENA.
Lisa currently lives in Stuttgart and Berlin.