Midge Mackenzie

Margaret Rose MacKenzie, known as 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.

After reading the work of psychoanalyst Ellis Miller, MacKenzie started exploring the meaning of her own childhood and from this came Prisoners of Childhood (1991) in which actors brought out themes of pain and damage from early years. 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. Saving Faces documented the patients whose faces had been reconstructed by surgeon Ian Hutchison, who is the chief executive of the charity Saving Faces. Hutchison recalls, "She followed us around absolutely silently and made a film that said so much."