Bridget Ikin
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Bridget Ikin | |
|---|---|
| Born | Lower Hutt, New Zealand |
| Education | University of Auckland London University |
| Occupation | Film producer |
| Known for | An Angel at My Table Look Both Ways |
Bridget Ikin is a New Zealand film producer who has lived and worked in Australia since 1990.
Ikin was born in Lower Hutt, New Zealand. She took a BA in English literature from the University of Auckland, followed by an MA from London University.[1]
Career
Ikin opened her film production company, Hibiscus Films, in the early 1980s in New Zealand. She was a member of NZ Women in Film and Television, lobbying for support for women filmmakers.[2]
She moved to Australia in 1990.[1] From 1996 to 2000, as head of SBS Independent she commissioned more than 400 hours of programming.[2] She served as feature film evaluation manager at the Film Finance Corporation (now Screen Australia) from 2005 to 2006 and was a board member of the South Australian Film Corporation for many years from 2007.[2] In 2011 Ikin and her partner John Maynard formed Felix Media a specialist production company that focusses on feature films made by visual artists and media environments such as Angelica Mesiti’s installation at the 2019 Venice Biennale 2019.[3]
Ikin is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.[4]
Filmography
- Talkback (1988) – producer
- Kitchen Sink (1989) – producer
- An Angel at My Table (1990) – producer
- Crush (1992) – producer
- Loaded (1994) – producer
- Floating Life (1996) – producer
- Walking on Water (2002) – executive producer
- The Tracker (2002) – executive producer
- Australian Rules (2002) – executive producer
- Look Both Ways (2005) – producer
- My Year Without Sex (2009) – producer
- Art + Soul (2010) documentary series – producer[5]
- Sherpa (2015) – producer
- The Rehearsal (2016) – producer
- The Woman and the Car (2018) – producer
- It All Started With a Stale Sandwich (2019) – executive producer
