Jeanie Finlay
Documentary Filmmaker and Artist
Jeanie Finlay is a British documentary filmmaker and artist known for intimate, award-winning work that resonates globally. In 2026 she premiered her 10th feature, All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea, at CPH:DOX, where it was nominated for the F:ACT Award.
Finlay has made films for HBO, the BBC, and IFC, including five films for the acclaimed BBC Storyville strand. Her layered, intricate stories include a British transgender man pregnant with his child in the 2019 BIFA-nominated Seahorse, Teesside’s last surviving record shop in 2011 cult hit Sound It Out, and the 2019 Emmy-nominated Game of Thrones: The Last Watch. Other titles include the provocative and compassionate Your Fat Friend, BIFA- and Grierson-nominated The Great Hip Hop Hoax, and the BIFA-winning Orion: The Man Who Would Be King.
Finlay’s accolades include a Chicken & Egg Award and Sheffield DocFest Inspiration Award, and she has had retrospectives at Criterion, BFI, MoMI NYC, and Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.
