"The 8th" co-director
Lucy Kennedy is a journalist and documentary filmmaker. She directed four episodes of the Netflix investigative documentary series “Rotten” including “Lawyers, Guns & Honey” and “The Avocado Wars”. She was the commissioning producer for three years of the Emmy-award-winning investigative series, “Fault Lines” on Al Jazeera. Over that period she directed and commissioned for the series; directing credits include “Death on the Bakken Shale”, “One Day in Charkh” and “American Sheriff”. Other work includes “Explorer” (National Geographic), “Frontline” (PBS), “Need to Know & Wide Angle” (WNET) & “Prime Time” (RTE). She is a graduate of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
