Bridget Ikin is a New Zealand film producer who has lived and worked in Australia since 1990.

Ikin was born in Lower Hutt, New Zealand. She took a BA in English literature from the University of Auckland, followed by an MA from London University.^[1]

Ikin opened her film production company, Hibiscus Films, in the early 1980s in New Zealand. She was a member of NZ Women in Film and Television, lobbying for support for women filmmakers.^[2]

She moved to Australia in 1990.^[1] From 1996 to 2000, as head of SBS Independent she commissioned more than 400 hours of programming.^[2] She served as feature film evaluation manager at the Film Finance Corporation (now Screen Australia) from 2005 to 2006 and was a board member of the South Australian Film Corporation for many years from 2007.^[2] In 2011 Ikin and her partner John Maynard formed Felix Media a specialist production company that focusses on feature films made by visual artists and media environments such as Angelica Mesiti’s installation at the 2019 Venice Biennale 2019.^[3]

Ikin is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.^[4]

• Talkback (1988) – producer
• Kitchen Sink (1989) – producer
• An Angel at My Table (1990) – producer
• Crush (1992) – producer
• Loaded (1994) – producer
• Floating Life (1996) – producer
• Walking on Water (2002) – executive producer
• The Tracker (2002) – executive producer
• Australian Rules (2002) – executive producer
• Look Both Ways (2005) – producer
• My Year Without Sex (2009) – producer
• Art + Soul (2010) documentary series – producer^[5]
• Sherpa (2015) – producer
• The Rehearsal (2016) – producer
• The Woman and the Car (2018) – producer
• It All Started With a Stale Sandwich (2019) – executive producer

Ikin was awarded an honorary Doctor of Arts by the Australian Film and Television School in 2018.^[6]