Rosie Reed Hillman is a UK documentary filmmaker, photographer and visual anthropologist. Rosie’s short film Cailleach (2014) is a portrait of an older woman living an independent, wild life in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Produced by Scottish Documentary Institute, the film has won 6 festival awards including Best Short at San Francisco International Film Festival and screened at over 30 festivals internationally. Cailleach is a selection on the Criterion Channel’s FILMSTRUCK streaming site, a series of the world’s most important classic and contemporary films. Rosie was a participant on the prestigious European Social Documentary program, 2017 where she developed her project Bearing (2021), an autobiographical portrait of everyday early motherhood. A practice as research film, Bearing screened at Ethnofest Ethnographic Film Festival, Athens in November 2021. Rosie is lecturer in filmmaking at Manchester Metropolitan University.
