Bridget Pickering

{{Short description|Namibian film producer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2021}}

{{Infobox person

| name = Bridget Pickering

| birth_date = 1966

| alma_mater = Syracuse University

| occupation = film maker and producer

| father = Arthur Pickering

}}

Bridget Pickering (born 1966) is a film maker and producer from Namibia. Her producing credits include Hotel Rwanda (2004),Arevalo, Rica (13 March 2010). [http://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest+News/Showbiz/Story/A1Story20100313-204368.html Producer notes great strides of women in cinema], Philippine Daily Inquirer The March of the White Elephants (2016), Liyana (2017), The Tale (2018), and Under The Hanging Tree (2023), Namibia's submission for Best International Feature at the 96th Academy Awards. She is the daughter of Namibian diplomat and trade unionist Advocate Arthur Pickering.{{Cite web |title=Pickering, Bridget {{!}} African Film Festival, Inc. |url=https://africanfilmny.org/directors/bridget-pickering/ |access-date=2024-12-04 |language=en-US}}

She attended college at Syracuse University in the United States and worked for Universal Pictures before returning to Namibia.McCluskey, Audrey T. [https://books.google.com/books?id=eN_XYUjdRasC&dq=%22Bridget+Pickering%22&pg=PA183 The devil you dance with: film culture in the new South Africa] (2009) ({{ISBN|978-0252075742}}) Her father is Namibian and her mother from South Africa. In 1999, she was one of six women chosen to direct a short film for the Mama Africa series. Her contribution, Uno's World, is about a young woman dealing with an unplanned pregnancy.{{cite book|author=Jule Selbo|editor=Jill Nelmes |editor2=Jule Selbo|title=Women Screenwriters: An International Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kGikCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA29|year=2015|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-137-31237-2|page=29}}