---
name: "Lindsay Poulton"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/lindsay-poulton"
fi1m_id: "lindsay-poulton"
imdb_id: "nm8744589"
tmdb_id: 2101469
roles: ["Producer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-28T05:05:18.781645+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Lindsay Poulton

## Identity

Lindsay Poulton

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/lindsay-poulton
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** lindsay-poulton
- **IMDb ID:** nm8744589
- **TMDB ID:** 2101469
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8744589/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2101469

Producer.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8744589/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2101469

## Biography

Lindsay Poulton is a British producer and documentary executive. She is head of documentaries at The Guardian and its first editorial director for film and television, where she commissions and oversees the outlet’s documentary output and leads its creative partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment.

She previously worked as a filmmaker and journalist for more than fifteen years. Her credits as producer or executive producer include the 2026 feature *Naza*, the Oscar-winning short *Colette* (2020) and the BAFTA-winning *The Black Cop* (2021), as well as numerous other Guardian documentaries. Earlier in her career she directed and produced shorts such as *6x9* (2016) and *The Shirt on Your Back* (2014).

Her work has been shown at festivals including Sundance, Tribeca, Sheffield DocFest and IDFA, and has received multiple awards.

*Sources: imdb.com, theguardian.com, variety.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *NAZA* (2026), Fi1m 82, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/naza.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *NAZA* (2026), Producer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/naza.md)
- *Threshold: the choir who sing to the dying* (2025), Executive Producer
- *Guardian Docs Test 1* (2025), Executive Producer
- *The Winterkeeper* (2023), Executive Producer
- *Skyward* (2022), Executive Producer
- *The Great Abandonment* (2021), Executive Producer
- *Saintmaking* (2021), Executive Producer
- *Belarus: Personal Stories From a Country in Turmoil* (2020), Producer
- *My Brother's Keeper* (2020), Executive Producer
- *Skip Day* (2018), Executive Producer
- *Qandeel* (2017), Executive Producer

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