Bridget Ikin

Bridget Ikin is a New Zealand film producer who has lived and worked in Australia since 1990.

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

Early life and education

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

Awards and recognition

Ikin was awarded an honorary Doctor of Arts by the Australian Film and Television School in 2018.^[6]

Year	Nominated Work	Prize	Awards	Ref
1990	An Angel at My Table	Best Film	New Zealand Film Awards	[7]
		International Critics' Award	Toronto International Film Festival
		Grand Special Jury Prize (second prize), the Elvira Notari Prize, Agis Scuola Prize, and the OCIC Catholic award	Venice Film Festival
1992		Best Foreign Film	Independent Spirit Awards	[7]
2005	Look Both Ways	Best Film	2005 Australian Film Institute Awards	[7]
2015	Sherpa	Grierson Award for Documentary Film	London Film Festival	[7]
2016		Best Feature Documentary	Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards	[7]
2017		Best Documentary	Australian Film Critics Association of Australia	[7]

References

1. "Bridget Ikin – Biography". NZ On Screen. Archived from the original on 17 June 2020. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
2. Mcleod, Kathryn. "Ikin, Bridget". The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
3. Brannigan, Genevieve (28 May 2019). "Venice Biennale: Artist Angelica Mesiti examines architecture of democracy for Australian Pavilion". Design Review.
4. "Bridget Ikin". Australian International Documentary Conference. Archived from the original on 23 March 2020. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
5. "Art + Soul (2010)". Australian Screen. Archived from the original on 25 January 2014. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
6. "Bridget Ikin, the 2018 AFTRS Honorary Degree Recipient, announced at AFTRS Graduation Ceremony". Australian Film Television and Radio School. 26 April 2018. Archived from the original on 29 March 2019. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
7. "Bridget Ikin". NZ On Screen. Archived from the original on 17 June 2020. Retrieved 5 October 2021.

External links

• Hibiscus Films
• Felix Media website
• Bridget Ikin at IMDb