George Hencken is an award-winning documentary filmmaker with a distinctive editorial voice and a passion for stories rooted in music, memory, and culture. Whether producing or directing, she is deeply involved in shaping the narrative, tone, and structure of her films—often using archival footage as a living, expressive voice within the storytelling.

Hencken’s work includes The Greatest Night in Pop (dir. Bao Nguyen), Netflix’s most watched music documentary of 2024, which earned her a PGA Award and multiple Emmy, Grammy, and Critics’ Choice nominations, among other honours, and The Sparks Brothers (dir. Edgar Wright), celebrated for its inventive structure and irreverent style, winning awards from Cinema Eye Honors, FOCAL International, and NME, and earned widespread acclaim for its inventive portrait of one of music’s most enduring cult acts. Hencken also directed Soul Boys of the Western World, constructed entirely from archive, premiered at SXSW and Cannes and was selected for major festivals including Rome, New York Doc Fest, and In-Edit Barcelona, as well as several acclaimed documentaries for the BBC, including Victoria Wood’s Secret List and Keith Richards: The Origin of the Species. In the early 2000s Hencken produced numerous films with director Julien Temple, including London The Modern Babylon, nominated for the British Independent Film Award and European Film Award for Best Documentary, among others, Oil City Confidential, and Requiem For Detroit?, winner of the Grierson Award for Best Historical Documentary.