Untitled Horse Woman Project

Original Title: Untitled Horse Woman Project

Runtime: 90'

Expected Release: January 2027

Production Stage: Post-Production

1st Feature: No

Looking for: Gap Financing, Private Investors, Sales Agents/Distributors, Buyers, Festivals, Strategic Guidance

Synopsis:

A fiercely independent 80-year-old scientist has spent her life observing wild horses from the edges of human society. Now, as their ecosystem — and ours — faces collapse, she discovers, in their freedom, a path back to a world we’ve all left behind.

Director’s Profile:

Lizzie MacKenzie is a self-shooting Director from the Scottish Highlands with a sensitive and playful approach to exploring human and non-human existence at the edges of (human) society. Her debut feature film, The Hermit of Treig, has won numerous awards both in the UK and internationally, including a Scottish BAFTA in November 2022. Lizzie’s work has been showcased as part of the BFI’s The Camera Is Ours: Britain’s Pioneering Women Documentary Makers strand.

Producer’s Profile:

Emily Copley is an independent producer and a 2025 Sundance Institute Grantee, currently producing her debut feature documentary. She was until recently the Joint Acting CEO of the Documentary Film Council (DFC), the UK’s first democratically run national body for independent documentary, and is also Programmer and Senior Producer of Talks & Sessions at Sheffield DocFest. She works regularly as a consultant and pre-selector for international festivals, markets and funds.