Bridget Ikin

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.

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 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.

Talkback – producer
Kitchen Sink – producer
An Angel at My Table – producer
Crush – producer
Loaded – producer
Floating Life – producer
Walking on Water – executive producer
The Tracker – executive producer
Australian Rules – executive producer
Look Both Ways – producer
My Year Without Sex – producer
Art + Soul documentary series – producer
Sherpa – producer
The Rehearsal – producer
The Woman and the Car – producer
It All Started With a Stale Sandwich – executive producer
Awards and recognition

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