Bridget Pickering

Bridget Pickering (born 1966) is a film maker and producer from Namibia. Among other projects, she was an executive producer on the 2004 film Hotel Rwanda.[1] She is the daughter of Namibian diplomat and trade unionist, Advocate Arthur Pickering.

She attended college at Syracuse University in the United States and worked for Universal Pictures before returning to Namibia.[2] Her father is Namibian and her mother from South Africa.[2] 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.[3]

References

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



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