Midge Mackenzie

Margaret Rose "Midge" MacKenzie, (6 March 1938 – 28 January 2004) was a London-born writer and filmmaker who first become known for producing Robert Joffrey's multimedia ballet Astarte with the Joffrey Ballet, and Women Talking, a documentary with interviews of Kate Millett, Betty Friedan and other leading figures in the US women's liberation movement.

She made the wonderful I Stand Here Ironing (1980) based on the Tillie Olsen stories, and later a trilogy of films looking at remote communities in Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

After many years refusing her request to interview him about his World War Two documentaries, Hollywood film director John Huston finally agreed to MacKenzie interviewing him at his home in Mexico, which became John Huston War Stories, released in 1999, more than a decade after his death.

[1][2] MacKenzie had a severely disabled son, Bunny, (real name Luke) by Frank Cvitanovich, born in 1967 who died, aged 11, in 1978.

She died on 28 January 2004 and was buried on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery This biographical article related to film in the United Kingdom is a stub.