Lindsey Dryden

Stroud, Gloucestershire, England, UK

Lindsey Dryden (she/her) is an Emmy®-winning film producer, director, writer and campaign strategist with bases in Gloucestershire, UK and Austin, TX. She is the founder of Little By Little Films, and known for telling stories that allow audiences unique and authentic access to unexpected, moving and gripping new worlds; for nurturing bold new voices; and for advocating for opportunities for underrepresented storytellers in the film industry. She is a sought-after consultant, guest speaker and mentor, and has been a juror and/or screener for BIFA, BAFTA, SXSW and film funds. Lindsey is the 2019 Simon Relph Memorial Bursary winner, a BFI Vision Awardee 2020 and a full voting member of the film and TV chapter of BAFTA. She’s a proud founding member of Queer Producers Network and FWD-Doc (Filmmakers with Disabilities); a member of Documentary Producers UK (DPUK); a Lecturer in Film Production (and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy); sits on the BFI’s Disability Advisory Board and Press Reset campaign; and is a fellow of BAFTA/BFI Flare, Guiding Lights, Good Pitch, HotDocs Forum and Sundance Creative Distribution Initiative. Lindsey produced Sundance Special Jury Award-winning and Oscar longlisted feature documentary Unrest with director Jennifer Brea (2017, PBS Independent Lens/Netflix), and produced Emmy®-winning Trans In America with directors Daresha Kyi and Cary Cronenwett (2018, ACLU/Conde Nast). She co-produced multi-award-winning Unrest VR (2017, Tribeca), Exec Produced Ahead of the Curve (Frameline, 2020) with co-directors Jennifer Rainin and Rivkah Beth Medow and an all-female LGBTQ+ crew, and Exec Produced BIFA-nominated The Forgotten C with Jessi Gutch and Molly Manning Walker for the Uncertain Kingdom series (2020). As a director she is represented by Hannah Boulton at The Agency. She has written and directed feature documentary Lost and Sound (2012, SXSW), short Jackie Kay: One Person, Two Names (2017, Tate Queer British Art) and short doc Close Your Eyes And Look At Me (2009, True/False), and has several nonfiction films and fiction scripts in development. With a background as an Impact Producer, Lindsey consults on and crafts innovative impact, distribution, exhibition and audience engagement strategies. She co-authored FWD-Doc’s Toolkit for Inclusion & Accessibility with Netflix and Doc Society and Unrest’s Sundance Creative Distribution Case Study, and contributed to DocSociety’s Hi5 Impact Unrest Case Study.