Bridget Ikin is a New Zealand film producer who has lived and worked in Australia since 1990.
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.
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.
She moved to Australia in 1990. From 1996 to 2000, as head of SBS Independent she commissioned more than 400 hours of programming. 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. 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.
Ikin is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Filmography
Talkback (1988) – producer
Kitchen Sink (1989) – producer
An Angel at My Table (1990) – producer
Crush (1992) – 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
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.
References
External links
Hibiscus Films
Felix Media website
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people) People from Lower Hutt University of Auckland alumni Alumni of the University of London New Zealand film producers New Zealand women film producers