Jeanie Finlay (she/her) is a British documentary filmmaker and artist known for intimate, award-winning work that resonates globally. In 2026 she premiered her tenth feature, All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea at CPH:DOX, where it was nominated for the F:ACT Award.
She has made films for HBO, BBC, and IFC, including five films for the acclaimed BBC Storyville strand. Whether inviting audiences to share the extra(ordinary) journey of a British transgender man pregnant with his child in the BIFA-nominated Seahorse (2019); to explore Teesside’s last surviving record shop in cult hit Sound It Out (2011); or to discover the small stories at the heart of the world’s biggest TV show, in the Emmy-nominated Game of Thrones: The Last Watch (2019), Jeanie unfurls layered, intricate stories, with emotional intimacy, pathos, and humour.
Other titles include the provocative and compassionate Your Fat Friend (2023), and a pair of prescient music industry rollercoasters - BIFA and Grierson-nominated The Great Hip Hop Hoax (2013), and the BIFA-winning Orion: The Man Who Would Be King (2015).
Jeanie is a Chicken & Egg Awardee and a Sheffield DocFest Inspiration Award winner with retrospectives at Criterion, BFI, MoMI NYC, and Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. The recipient of an honorary Doctorate of Arts in recognition of her contribution to documentary, Jeanie is a member of AMPAS, BAFTA, and FWD-Doc.
She is founder of the production company Glimmer Films and co-founder of its pioneering creative distribution arm, Glimmerama, with creative producer and head of business affairs Suzanne Alizart.
