Carey McKenzie

Carey McKenzie was born on Sep 17, 1969 in South Africa. Carey McKenzie's big-screen debut came with Cold Harbour directed by Carey McKenzie in 2013.

Carey McKenzie is a screenwriter and director with an international background and credits. She writes films and drama series of some scope and directs documentaries and more modestly budgeted films.Most recently she has written a feature adaptation of Joan Didion's political romance, Democracy, which is in development in 2022 at Archer Gray with Anne Carey producing, and an episode of Marseille refugee drama, Transatlantic, for show-runner Anna Winger (Unorthodox) and Netflix, in production spring summer 2022.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 worldwide 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.In 2022, Carey is collaborating with Holly Becker on The Climate Scientists, a feature documentary about IPCC lead authors and other experts who are working to galvanize governments and the public to take urgent climate action.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.