About

Lindsay Gauthier is a San Francisco-based film director and producer. In 2023, Gauthier won an Emmy for directing and producing an episode of KQED’s If Cities Could Dance series.

Originally trained as a photographer and professional dancer in the San Francisco Bay Area, Lindsay brings a deeply embodied sensibility to her filmmaking. Her work is driven by a desire to capture moments of transformation—where movement, emotion, and story reveal something essential about what it means to be human.

Her films have screened nationally and internationally, including at Lincoln Center in New York and the EYE Filmmuseum in Amsterdam, as well as festivals and venues across San Francisco, Los Angeles, Barcelona, and beyond.

Lindsay is the owner and creative director of Rapt Productions, where she writes, directs, produces, and edits short films, documentaries, and dance-for-camera projects. In 2021, she was selected as a recipient of the Creative Work Fund to create Wild, a new narrative dance film developed in collaboration with LandPaths and Fog Beast.

For five years, Lindsay also served as creative producer of the San Francisco Dance Film Festival’s Co-Laboratory, where she guided and supported over a dozen collaborations between professional filmmakers and choreographers in the making of short dance films.

Across all of her work, Lindsay is committed to expanding the possibilities of cinema—both through her own creative practice and through mentorship, collaboration, and the cultivation of space for other artists to take risks and grow.