Experience

Little By Little Films

• United Kingdom
• Media Production
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director, Producer, Exec Producer

  • Nov 2011 - Present

  Lindsey Dryden is an Emmy®-winning filmmaker who produces, writes and directs short and feature length films. She founded Little By Little Films, which is led by underrepresented voices and prioritises stories by and about LGBTQ folks, women and D/deaf and disabled people. She’s also a proud founding member of Queer Producers Collective and FWD-DOC: Filmmakers With Disabilities, and a fellow of BAFTA/BFI Flare, Guiding Lights, Good Pitch and Sundance Creative Distribution Initiative.Lindsey produced Sundance Special Jury Award-winning and Oscar shortlisted Unrest with director/producer Jennifer Brea and fellow producer Patricia E. Gillespie (2017, Netflix/PBS Independent Lens), produced Emmy®-winning Trans In America with directors Daresha Kyi and Cary Cronenwett (2018, ACLU/Conde Nast), co-produced multi-award-winning Unrest VR (2017, Tribeca), produced short Little Ones (2013) with Joanna Coates (nominated Best Producer, Underwire), and Exec Produced Ahead of the Curve (2020) with an all-female LGBTQ+ crew.Her directing/writing credits include Lost and Sound (2012, SXSW), Jackie Kay: One Person, Two Names (2017, Tate Queer British Art) and Close Your Eyes And Look At Me (2009, True/False). She co-authored Unrest’s DocSociety Hi5 Impact Case Study and Sundance Creative Distribution Case Study. With a background as an Impact Producer, she consults on and crafts innovative audience engagement strategies (Unrest, Angels & Ghosts feat. Samantha Morton).Lindsey’s work has been selected for SXSW, Tribeca, Sundance, HotDocs, True/False, CPH:Dox, MIFF and Sheffield Doc/Fest, screened at Film Society of Lincoln Center’s Art Of The Real, enjoyed theatrical release, and broadcast on Netflix, PBS Independent Lens, BBC, Channel 4. She is known for telling stories that allow audiences unique 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. Show less

• Director

  • 2011 - Present



FWD-Doc

• Co-Founder

  • 2018 - Present

  Founded by filmmakers Jim LeBrecht, Day Al-Mohamed, Lindsey Dryden and Alysa Nahmias, FWD-Doc is a non-profit that seeks to increase the visibility of, support for, and direct access to opportunities, networks, and employment for D/deaf and disabled filmmakers. Responsibilities include inclusion consultancy, impact and engagement strategy, writing toolkits and resources, and delivering collaborative inclusion initiatives. Founded by filmmakers Jim LeBrecht, Day Al-Mohamed, Lindsey Dryden and Alysa Nahmias, FWD-Doc is a non-profit that seeks to increase the visibility of, support for, and direct access to opportunities, networks, and employment for D/deaf and disabled filmmakers. Responsibilities include inclusion consultancy, impact and engagement strategy, writing toolkits and resources, and delivering collaborative inclusion initiatives.



Tate

• Italy
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Producer / Director

  • Mar 2015 - Present

  Producing and directing documentaries about artists and culture, for video series TateShots and for special events (incl. Hyundai Turbine Festival). Producing and directing documentaries about artists and culture, for video series TateShots and for special events (incl. Hyundai Turbine Festival).



University of Gloucestershire

• United Kingdom
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Lecturer in Film Production (part-time)

  • Sep 2016 - Feb 2021

  Lindsey Dryden FHEA (Fellow of the Higher Education Academy) was a part-time Lecturer in Film Production, where she taught across non-fiction and fiction, led modules including Screen Aesthetics, co-tutored modules including Documentary and Production 2 (graduation film), and supervised numerous student productions annually, many of which have won awards internationally including at the RTS Awards and Nahemi. She has contributed 4* research outputs, has written an Impact Case Study for REF 2021, and is keen to pursue a PhD. Her key research interests are around embodiment, sexuality, and the so-called 'deviant body' in visual culture. Her publications explore how society treats people with bodily experiences that are rebellious and non-conforming, and how we might decide to be active in representing ourselves. Dryden is committed to enabling students to reach their creative potential, and to empowering them to explore their own voices in documentary and narrative storytelling. She has a wide range of teaching experience, gained from teaching at UoG, delivering masterclasses at film festivals and institutions including Oxford’s Said Business School, mentoring and exec producing with new filmmakers, lecturing at Cambridge School of Art and teaching at Met Film School. She brings special expertise in directing, producing, story development, festival strategy, impact producing, bespoke distribution strategy, incorporating animation and creative sound design in documentary, and Virtual Reality development and project management. The University of Gloucestershire is one of the UK’s top universities for studying film production; it is ranked in the top 10 for film production by the Guardian University Guide, and faculty includes BAFTA and Sundance award-winning filmmakers. Students regularly scoop top awards from RTS, Kodak and the BFI and it is the only UK institution represented at the International Filmmakers Academy. Show less


Trans In America
• Producer

  • 2017 - 2019

Unrest
• United Kingdom
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Producer

  • May 2014 - 2018