Lindsey Dryden is an award-winning British director and producer. A Goldsmiths graduate, she specialises in telling intimate and unexpected stories about the body and the arts.
Her work has shown at over 30 festivals worldwide, including SXSW, True/False, Sheffield Doc/Fest and the Film Society Of Lincoln Center’s ‘Art Of The Real’, and screened in Picturehouse Cinemas.
With a background in TV documentary (Channel 4, BBC, History Channel, Current TV), Lindsey directed her first feature documentary LOST AND SOUND in 2012. It follows three musicians who have lost their hearing as they try to rediscover music, and premiered at SXSW, with nominations for Best Emerging UK Filmmaker (Open City Docs) and Best Female-Directed Film (Sheffield Doc/Fest). Lindsey has been Filmmaker-In-Residence at Jacob Burns Film Center in NY, and is a Sundance Fellow. She was nominated Best Producer at Underwire Festival for her work with Michael Powell Award winner Joanna Coates, and is a member of the Queer Producers Collective. She is currently directing a feature documentary about an iconic queer jazz musician, producing feature documentary CANARY IN A COAL MINE (Sundance, Chicken & Egg, Good Pitch), and making art films with the Tate in London.
Dryden founded Little By Little Films (UK), a small independent production company that's fiercely committed to ethical filmmaking, and to creative and forward-thinking indie storytelling and bespoke distribution. Recent projects include LITTLE ONES, a short doc by Joanna Coates and funded by Film London and Kevin Spacey Foundation; producing outreach on ANGELS AND GHOSTS, an award-winning short animation about mental health narrated by Oscar nominated actress Samantha Morton; and directing and producing a short about 70s feminist artist Alexis Hunter.
DocGeeks say Dryden makes "formidable and innovative uses of the documentary format to provide a unique insight into the human condition," – and that's how she aims to continue.
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