Olivia Martin-McGuire

Olivia Martin-McGuire

Still: Freedom Swimmer
Olivia MARTIN-MCGUIRE is an Australian documentary filmmaker and photographer based in London, after a long stay in China and Hong Kong. She graduated from UNSW College of Fine Arts. Her first feature documentary, China Love (2018), made for ABC Television with an international premiere at DOCNYC, was nominated for Best Documentary at the Sydney Film Festival and the Screen Producer Australia Award. The project's photographic series has been featured in numerous international publications including TIME, The Guardian and VICE. The series has also been exhibited at the HeadOn Photo Festival in Sydney, the Pier2Art Centre in Taiwan and the Shanghai Centre for Photography. Her short film Freedom Swimmer (2021) won the Yoram Gross Animation Award at Sydney Film Festival. As a photographer, Martin-McGuire has exhibited in Australia and China at numerous museums, galleries and photography festivals and has worked for various international publications. She is part of a group of photo and video journalists, Eyes On China, and is developing hybrid documentary projects.

Filmography

China Love (2018, doc), Freedom Swimmer (2021, short)