Lindsey Dryden
Founder & Creative Director
Lindsey Dryden (she/her) is an Emmy®-winning film producer, director, writer and campaign strategist with bases in Gloucestershire, UK and Austin, TX. She is the founder of Little By Little Films, and known for telling stories that allow audiences authentic access to unexpected and moving new worlds; for nurturing bold new voices; and for advocating for opportunities for underrepresented storytellers in the film industry. She is a sought-after consultant, guest speaker and mentor, and has been a juror and/or screener for BIFA, BAFTA, SXSW and film funds.
Lindsey is a 2022 Sundance Institute Documentary Producers Lab Fellow, a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a full voting member of the film and TV chapter of BAFTA, a 2020 BFI Vision Awardee and the 2019 Simon Relph Memorial Bursary winner. She’s a proud co-founder of FWD-Doc (Filmmakers with Disabilities) and member of QueerDoc; a member of Documentary Producers UK (DPUK); a Lecturer in Film Production (and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy); sits on the BFI’s Disability Screen Advisory Board; and is a fellow of BAFTA/BFI Flare, Guiding Lights, Good Pitch, HotDocs Forum and Sundance Creative Distribution Initiative.
Lindsey produced Sundance Special Jury Award-winning and Oscar®-shortlisted feature documentary Unrest with director Jennifer Brea (2017, PBS Independent Lens/Netflix), and produced Emmy®-winning Trans In America with directors Daresha Kyi and Cary Cronenwett (2018, ACLU/Conde Nast). She co-produced multi-award-winning Unrest VR (2017, Tribeca), Exec Produced Ahead of the Curve (Frameline, 2020) with co-directors Jennifer Rainin and Rivkah Beth Medow and an all-female LGBTQ+ crew, and Exec Produced BIFA-nominated The Forgotten C with Jessi Gutch and Molly Manning Walker for the Uncertain Kingdom series (2020).
As a director she is represented by Hannah Boulton at The Agency. She has written and directed feature documentary Lost and Sound (2012, SXSW), short Jackie Kay: One Person, Two Names (2017, Tate Queer British Art) and short doc Close Your Eyes And Look At Me (2009, True/False), and has several nonfiction films and fiction scripts in development.
With a background as an Impact Producer, Lindsey consults on and crafts innovative impact, distribution and audience engagement strategies. She co-authored FWD-Doc’s Toolkit for Inclusion & Accessibility with Netflix and Doc Society and Unrest’s Sundance Creative Distribution Case Study, and contributed to DocSociety’s Hi5 Impact Unrest Case Study.
Sam Steele
Producer/Production Manager
Sam Steele (she/her) is a production manager and producer based between London, UK and Marseille, France. She has worked across documentaries and digital projects for Al Jazeera, CNBC and Facebook and films for Channel 4.
Her experience also includes development, and working across feature documentaries and short-films commissioned by BFI. She is passionate about documentary’s ability to introduce audiences to new perspectives and utilises strong development skills to bring unheard stories to a wider audience. Her approach to documentary is guided by a strong anthropological and historical research background that informs her ability to work across in a sensitive and ethical way.
Sam is one of the co-founders of women-led collective Alternative Fictions that supports filmmakers and visual anthropologists, and curates events/workshops on fairer representation in film and wider social themes. These events have taken place at: London Migration Film Festival, Radical Film Network and Creative Interruptions.
The collective has recently been working on a three-part workshop series, supported by the Heritage Fund, focusing on varying aspects of activism in partnership with Newington Green Meeting House.
Nora Wilkinson
Producer
Nora Wilkinson (she/her) is a producer and researcher based in Brooklyn, New York. She was a co-producer on director Sam Green's Oscar®-shortlisted documentary feature 32 Sounds (Sundance 2022), an associate producer on the Emmy®-winning short film Trans in America: Texas Strong (SXSW 2018), and a producer on the short documentary Annea Lockwood/A Film About Listening (Counterflows 2021). She is currently working on documentary features from directors Laura Poitras, Todd Chandler, Melissa Langer and Lindsey Dryden. Nora previously worked at the American Civil Liberties Union, where she produced short films and videos, and developed and co-produced a weekly podcast, At Liberty (ACLU). She came to film from a background in art history (MA: Courtauld Institute of Art; BA: Harvard University).
Usman Khan
Finance Manager
Usman is our Finance Manager and manages all the accounts and finance operations at Little By Little Films. He works with a range of creative companies and has helped bring to life numerous impactful short and feature length films.
Kyla Harris
Creative Associate
Kyla Harris is a filmmaker, writer and activist who applies an intersectional approach to all of her work, and brings her creative and advocacy experience to Little By Little Films. She is the chair of the Disability Screen Advisory Group for the British Film Institute (BFI) that advises and supports inclusivity in the industry, including the most recent British Film and Television Awards (BAFTA) Review. Kyla has been a panelist for a number of organisations including the BFI, Birds Eye View and Hot Docs Festival, often advocating for people who share her own identities as a queer, disabled women of colour. Along with FWD-Doc and Little By Little Films, she co-wrote A Toolkit for Inclusion & Accessibility: Changing the Narrative of Disability in Documentary Film in association with Doc Society and Netflix as well as the FWD-Doc Engagement Pack in association with Doc Society and the BFI. Her short film It’s Personal, that she co-directed and wrote, was commissioned by the Film Video Umbrella and is their most viewed film to date. She is currently writing and starring in We Might Regret This, a six-part BBC Two comedy, co-starring Sally Phillips, Darren Boyd. Elena Saurel, Hugh Coles and Aasiya Shah.