Carey McKenzie
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
Carey McKenzie is a screenwriter and director with an affinity for factual material and adaptation.
Most recently she has written a feature adaptation of Joan Didion's political romance, Democracy, which is in development. She was a writer in Netflix refugee drama, Transatlantic (2023).
Carey wrote and directed Cold Harbour (2013) a gritty South African crime thriller, which opened the New York African Film Festival at Lincoln Center and had a twenty screen release by UIP Southern Africa. It subsequently aired on M-Net Africa and streamed on Netflix.
In the documentary arena, Carey directed and wrote, Original Child Bomb (2004) a stylistically innovative art doc about the human cost of nuclear weapons which premiered at Tribeca, won the grand jury prize at Silverdocs, screened at MOMA and the Japan Society NYC and aired on the Sundance Channel. Now available on You Tube.
Carey also directed the short climate doc, The Crisis Scientists (2023) about IPCC lead authors, and produced Arresting Science (2023) directed by Holly Becker, about outspoken NASA earth scientist Peter Kalmus and his first arrest for civil disobedience. Kalmus and friends chained themselves to Chase Bank in DTLA to protest fossil fuel investments. LAPD sent one hundred riot police.
Carey has a masters in English from Cambridge University, where she was active in student theater and an MFA in film from NYU Tisch, where she was awarded the Carl Lerner scholarship. She attended the Binger Film Lab in Amsterdam and has participated in residencies in Berlin and NY. She lives in Lisbon.
Most recently she has written a feature adaptation of Joan Didion's political romance, Democracy, which is in development. She was a writer in Netflix refugee drama, Transatlantic (2023).
Carey wrote and directed Cold Harbour (2013) a gritty South African crime thriller, which opened the New York African Film Festival at Lincoln Center and had a twenty screen release by UIP Southern Africa. It subsequently aired on M-Net Africa and streamed on Netflix.
In the documentary arena, Carey directed and wrote, Original Child Bomb (2004) a stylistically innovative art doc about the human cost of nuclear weapons which premiered at Tribeca, won the grand jury prize at Silverdocs, screened at MOMA and the Japan Society NYC and aired on the Sundance Channel. Now available on You Tube.
Carey also directed the short climate doc, The Crisis Scientists (2023) about IPCC lead authors, and produced Arresting Science (2023) directed by Holly Becker, about outspoken NASA earth scientist Peter Kalmus and his first arrest for civil disobedience. Kalmus and friends chained themselves to Chase Bank in DTLA to protest fossil fuel investments. LAPD sent one hundred riot police.
Carey has a masters in English from Cambridge University, where she was active in student theater and an MFA in film from NYU Tisch, where she was awarded the Carl Lerner scholarship. She attended the Binger Film Lab in Amsterdam and has participated in residencies in Berlin and NY. She lives in Lisbon.