About

Lindsay Gauthier is a San Francisco based Film Director and Producer. In 2023, Gauthier won an Emmy in Directing and Producing for her episode of KQED’s If Cities Could Dance series. Previously a photographer and professional dancer in the San Francisco Bay Area her work aims to capture the highest aims of the human spirit through expression, movement, and storytelling. Lindsay’s films have screened nationally and internationally, including at Lincoln Center in New York, EYE Filmmuseum in Amsterdam, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Barcelona, and beyond. She is the Owner and Creative Director at Rapt Productions in San Francisco where she writes, directs, produces, and edits short films, documentaries, and dance for camera. Recently she was selected as a recipient of the Creative Work Fund Grant to create a new narrative dance film project, “Wild,” with LandPaths and Fog Beast. Gauthier was the Creative Producer of the San Francisco Dance Film Festival's Co-Laboratory project for 5 years, in which she guided and facilitated over 13 film collaborations between professional filmmakers and professional dance choreographers in the making of short films. Gauthier is passionate about progressing the fields of dance and cinema through her own creative work as well as through her support of other artists’ development.