Bridget Pickering

Bridget Pickering
Born	1966
Alma mater	Syracuse University
Occupation(s)	film maker and producer
Father	Arthur Pickering

Bridget Pickering (born 1966) is a film maker and producer from Namibia. Her producing credits include Hotel Rwanda (2004)[1], The March of the White Elephants (2016), Liyana (2017), The Tale (2018), and Under The Hanging Tree (2023), Namibia's submission for Best International Feature at the 96th Academy Awards. She is the daughter of Namibian diplomat and trade unionist Advocate Arthur Pickering.[2]

She attended college at Syracuse University in the United States and worked for Universal Pictures before returning to Namibia.[3] Her father is Namibian and her mother from South Africa.[3] In 1999, she was one of six women chosen to direct a short film for the Mama Africa series. Her contribution, Uno's World, is about a young woman dealing with an unplanned pregnancy.[4]

References

1. Arevalo, Rica (13 March 2010). Producer notes great strides of women in cinema, Philippine Daily Inquirer
2. "Pickering, Bridget | African Film Festival, Inc". Retrieved 4 December 2024.
3. McCluskey, Audrey T. The devil you dance with: film culture in the new South Africa (2009) (ISBN 978-0252075742)
4. Jule Selbo (2015). Jill Nelmes; Jule Selbo (eds.). Women Screenwriters: An International Guide. Springer. p. 29. ISBN 978-1-137-31237-2.

External links

• Bridget Pickering at IMDb