Lucy Brydon is a BAFTA-nominated screenwriter, filmmaker and novelist, author of Shanghai Passenger (2015) and writer/director of Body of Water (2020), which was commissioned by Film London, financed by BBC Film and the BFI, and released by Verve Pictures. Lucy was nominated for the BAFTA Scotland Best Writer Award for the Screenplay. She has produced and directed video and content for clients including Netflix and MC Saatchi.
Lucy has received awards for her work from the Film and Television Charity, Wellcome Trust, and the Dewar Arts Awards amongst others. Her most recent moving image work features in the Biennale for Visual Arts Scotland at the National Galleries of Scotland (2025-26). She has a slate of projects in development across film and television. Brydon’s multidisciplinary career also includes scholarly research on Scottish cinema.