Biography

Margy Kinmonth is a film and television director whose credits include award winning feature documentary "Eric Ravilious - Drawn to War" (Foxtrot Films Ltd/Dartmouth Films), the first major feature film to be made about Eric Ravilious, the much loved but hugely underestimated artist who was killed in a plane crash over Iceland in 1942. The film features Ai Weiwei, Robert Macfarlane, Grayson Perry and Alan Bennett, starring Freddie Fox, Tamsin Grieg, Harriet Walter and Jeremy Irons. Kinmonth's other credits include "Revolution - New Art for a New World" (Foxtrot Films Ltd/Arts Alliance), marking the 1917 Russian Revolution, "War Art with Eddie Redmayne" ([1] 2015), which shows on ITV and Ovation, about artists of the First World War, Bafta nominated feature documentary Hermitage Revealed (Foxtrot Films Ltd/Arts Alliance, Moscow International Film Festival 2014[1]), Royal Paintbox with HRH the Prince of Wales (Foxtrot Films Ltd/ ITV, MIFF 2013[2]), Looking for Lowry with Ian McKellen, Noel Gallagher and Dame Paula Rego (Foxtrot Films/ ITV) "Mariinsky Theatre," "Nutcracker Story" and BBC series Naked Hollywood, winner of BAFTA Best Documentary Series.[3]

Kinmonth's other films include The Strange World of Barry Who? about Francis Bacon and Rudolph Nureyev, which won the Royal Television Society Best Arts Film Award,[4] The Secret World of Haute Couture, Smoking Diaries with Simon Gray, Dawn French, Steven Berkoff, Rubens- A Master in the Making (for The National Gallery) and Remember the Secret Policeman's Ball? with John Cleese and Sting.

Kinmonth was the recipient of the Creative Originality Award at the Women in Film and Television Awards in 2009 and has been the director of Foxtrot Films Ltd. since its conception.
- IMDb mini biography by: Margy Kinmonth