Lizzie MacKenzie is a self-shooting director-producer from the Scottish Highlands with a sensitive, gentle and playful approach to exploring human and non-human existence at the edges of (human) society. Her debut feature film, The Hermit of Treig, has won numerous awards both in the UK and internationally, including a Scottish BAFTA in November 2022. Lizzie’s work has been showcased as part of the British Film Institute’s The Camera Is Ours: Britain’s Pioneering Women Documentary Makers. Her second feature film, currently in development, explores the subject of domestication and the wild soul.
Awards: Scottish BAFTA 22 Winner Single Documentary. Glasgow Film Festival Audience Award 2022. Vancouver International Film Fest Audience Award 22. Carpathian Mountain Film Fest Best Feature Doc 22. Aesthetica Short Film Festival Best Director, and Best Documentary Feature 22. Kendal Mountain Film Festival Grand Prize 22. Millennium Docs Against Gravity Special Jury Award 23. Nordic Adventure Film Festival Best Cinematography 23. Selected for BFI The Camera Is Ours: Pioneering British Female Filmmakers
“I’m so excited by the possibilities of visual storytelling to inspire people to live in compassionate wonder at the wild world; its creatures and its possibilities, and through this feel connected to the wild inside themselves”