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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]
Bridget Ikin is a passionate champion of new and innovative filmmaking, having produced award-winning films, short films, documentaries and moving image projects over many years, in both Australia and New Zealand: initially through Hibiscus Films and now through Felix Media. She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Australian Film ...
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Producer Bridget Ikin has long been a champion for women in the screen industry. Working on both sides of the Tasman, she has collaborated with many influential creatives including directors Jane Campion, Alison Maclean, Stewart Main, Australian Sarah Watt, and writers Eleanor Catton and Emily Perkins.
Bridget Ikin - Producer Bridget Ikin has made a habit of championing Antipodean women filmmakers with original visions, from Alison Maclean (Kitchen Sink) to Jane Campion (An Angel at My Table) and Australian Sarah Watt (Look Both Ways). Since leaving New Zealand in the early 1990s, Ikin has been influential in Australian television and film, including programming public broadcasting network SBS.
Bridget Ikin is known for Look Both Ways (2005), Sherpa (2015) and My Year Without Sex (2009). IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Add photos, demo reels Add to list.
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Bridget Ikin. Innovative producer Bridget Ikin has received an accolade from the Australian Film Television and Radio School. Ikin joins a select group including Dr George Miller, Baz Luhrmann, John Edwards, Darren Dale, Jan Chapman and Phillip Noyce as recipients of an AFTRS Honorary Degree – Doctor of Arts, Film and Television.
Committed to producing quality cinema of ideas, Bridget Ikin is an award-winning producer, whose feature films include: AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE; Alison Maclean’s CRUSH; Clara Law’s FLOATING LIFE; Sarah Watt’s LOOK BOTH WAYS and MY YEAR WITHOUT SEX. She is the EP for the 2013 debut feature THE ROCKET (dir. Kim Mordaunt).
