Lindsey Dryden (she/her) is an Emmy®-award winning producer, director and writer.
Based in SW England and Austin TX, she founded multi-award-winning indie production
company Little By Little Films, which is dedicated to brilliant storytelling by and
about under-represented voices, with an authentic focus on the perspectives of women,
LGBTQ+ folks, and D/deaf and disabled people.
She is a proud member of Queer Producers and co-founder of FWD-Doc: Filmmakers With
Disabilities, the 2019 Simon Relph Bursary winner, a 2020 BFI Vision Awardee, a 2022
Sundance Institute Documentary Producers Lab Fellow and a full voting member of the
film and TV chapter of BAFTA.
Passionate about nurturing marginalised storytelling voices, she is frequently hired
as an executive producer, mentor and consultant, and she has a background in academia
as a Lecturer and in Creative Practice As Research (CPaR). She is a Fellow of the
Higher Education Academy (FHEA), and in addition to her First Class undergraduate
degree from Goldsmiths, she has a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP)
and a passion for film research and teaching.
Dryden produced feature documentary Unrest (Sundance/Netflix/PBS 2017) which was shortlisted
for Academy Award nomination; produced Emmy® award-winning documentary series Trans
In America (2019); co-produced Unrest VR (winner Best VR Award, Sheffield Doc/Fest);
and Exec Produced The Uncertain Kingdom's BIFA-nominated narrative short The Forgotten
C (2020), LGBTQ+ feature doc Ahead of the Curve (Frameline/Starz, 2020) and short
documentary Tegan (Netflix, 2022).
She directed feature documentary Lost and Sound (SXSW 2012); shorts Jackie Kay: One
Person Two Names for Tate’s Queer British Art (2017) and Close Your Eyes And Look
At Me (True/False, 2009), and numerous art films for Tate. She is represented as a
director by Hannah Boulton at The Agency, and has both fiction and non-fiction projects
in development and production.
LinkedIn. “About,” n.d. https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindseydryden.
Lindsey Dryden is an award-winning Director, Producer and Executive Producer, and
an Emmy® nominee. She is the producer of Trans In America (SXSW 2019) with the ACLU,
which won two Webby awards and was Emmy® nominated in 2019, and of Sundance award-winning
Unrest (2017), which was broadcast on PBS and Netflix after theatrical release in
the US and UK. She co-produced Sheffield Doc/Fest VR Award-winning Unrest VR (2017).
Her directing credits include Jackie Kay: One Person Two Names (Tate’s Queer British
Art 2017), Lost and Sound (SXSW, 2012) and Close Your Eyes And Look At Me (True/False,
2009). Her work has been selected for 50+ festivals including SXSW, Sundance, Tribeca,
HotDocs, True/False, Sheffield Doc/Fest, MIFF, CPH:DOX and Film Society of Lincoln
Center’s Art Of The Real, has exhibited at Tate Britain and Modern, streamed on Vogue.com,
featured in Elle, and broadcast on Netflix, PBS, BBC and Channel 4.
She is a proud founding member of Queer Producers Collective and FWD-DOC, and a a
Fellow of Guiding Lights (mentored by Andrew Haigh), BFI Flare 2018, Good Pitch, HotDocs
Forum, Sundance Documentary Film Program, Sheffield Doc/Fest Future Producer School,
XOLabs, IDFA DocLab, WFTV UK and Birds
Rosalind Films. “Lindsey Dryden,” n.d. https://www.rosalindfilms.co.uk/team.
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