Dorothy Allen-Pickard

Fiction
Saving Face
Weekend Dad
Wannabe

Documentaries
We Did Not Consent
Material Bodies
The Mess
A Sonic Pulse
The Place that is Ours
After Time
The Masses

Commercials
E.l.f
Mind
Fitbit
Nike
Google
Hop House

About

Press

Dorothy works across narrative, documentary and theatrical modes of filmmaking to explore subjects such as community resistance, living with mental illness and disability, the criminal justice system and policing. Her collaborative approach to filmmaking is often inspired by her protagonists' lived experiences. She has a particular interest in blurring the line between performance and reality, and is founding member of Breach Theatre, and associate artist of Kestrel Theatre, who run theatre and film workshops in prisons.

Her work has screened at festivals including London Film Festival, Hot Docs, Clermont Ferrand, Palm Springs, Doc NYC, and Sheffield DocFest, and on news and broadcast channels including PBS, Guardian Documentaries and the BBC. She has been awarded Best UK Short at Open City Doc Festival, a Special Mention at Oberhausen, Grand Prix at Arts Convergence, shortlisted for a Grierson, and received multiple Vimeo Staff Picks.

She was director's assistant on Kaos (Netflix), directed 2nd Unit on Rye Lane (Searchlight), and was selected to take part in Network @LFF in 2022. She’s an accomplished commercials director, working with production companies internationally, and is currently developing her debut feature.

She’s represented by Jessica Stewart at Independent for Film and TV, Sweetshop TV for UK commercials, and Skunk for US commercials.