Lindsey Dryden

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Lindsey Dryden is a British film director, producer and writer.

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Early life

Dryden was born in Stroud, in Gloucestershire, England. She learned to play piano as a child from her father. [1] She studied at Goldsmiths, University of London, and was awarded a Bachelor of Arts with First Class honours. Dryden has been mentored by The National Film & Television School, Women In Film & Television, 45 Years director Andrew Haigh, [2] and BFI Flare. [3]

Career

Dryden began her career working on television documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4, The History Channel, Current TV and others, before moving into independent film. [4]

Dryden has directed and produced films that have screened at numerous top international festivals, including SXSW, Sundance, Tribeca, True/False, Sheffield Doc/Fest, HotDocs, New York's Lincoln Center and the British Film Institute. Her work has been released theatrically in the UK and US, [5] exhibited at Tate Modern and Tate Britain, streamed on Vogue.com, featured in Elle (magazine), and broadcast on Netflix, PBS, BBC and Channel 4. [6]

Her directing credits include feature documentary Lost and Sound (SXSW, 2012), [7] short documentary Close Your Eyes And Look At Me (True/False, 2009) and Jackie Kay: One Person Two Names, commissioned for Tate Britain's Queer British Art 2017. [8]

For directing Lost and Sound she was nominated Best New UK Filmmaker at Open City Docs and Best Female-Directed Film at Sheffield Doc/Fest. [9] The film went on to screen and win awards at festivals globally, including at ReelAbilities [10] and Napa Valley Film Festival. [11]

Dryden produced SXSW-debuting documentary series Trans In America. One of those short films, Trans In America: Texas Strong, won the Emmy for Outstanding Short Documentary on 24 September 2019 [12] [13] as well as a Webby Award and a Webby People's Voice Award in May 2019. [14] [15]

Dryden produced Sundance award-winning feature documentary Unrest (dir: Jennifer Brea), which premiered in competition at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, [16] won a Sundance Special Jury Award, [17] won a 2018 Independent Lens Audience Award, [18] and was shortlisted for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 2017 Oscars. [19]

Her other producing credits include short documentary Little Ones (dir: Joanna Coates, 2013), and a verite documentary series with the ACLU about transgender civil rights (2018). She co-produced Sheffield Doc/Fest VR award-winning Unrest VR (2017), with Jennifer Brea, Arnaud Colinart and Amaury La Burthe, [20] and in 2013 was nominated Best Producer at Underwire, a festival celebrating female filmmakers, for Little Ones. The film was developed as part of the London Borough Film Fund Challenge. [21]

Dryden is a founding member of Queer Producers Collective and FWD-DOC, a recent Filmmaker-In-Residence at Jacob Burns Film Center in New York, and an artist-in-residence at Somerset House Studios. She frequently consults, mentors, speaks on panels and offers masterclasses, including at Sheffield Doc/Fest and Women In Film & Television. She is the 2019 Simon Relph Memorial Bursary awardee. [22]

Filmography

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  7. ↑ "'Lost And Sound' Director Lindsey Dryden On What Happens To Music When You Go Deaf". The Huffington Post.
  8. ↑ "Poet Jackie Kay Opens Up About Accepting LGBTQ+ Identity To Celebrate New Tate Britain Exhibition". Elle.com, by Katie O'Malley, May 2nd, 2017.
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