Margot Nash

Margot NASH (New Zealand) is a filmmaker and academic whose work spans feminist cinema, feature drama, documentary and essay film. Based in Australia, she has explored themes of land, belonging, gender, race and family history through a strongly personal and political lens. Her films include the feminist short Shadow Panic (1989), the feature drama Vacant Possession (1995), Call Me Mum (2006), and the essay documentary The Silences (2015). Her first film, We Aim to Please (1976), made collaboratively with Robin Laurie, addressed female sexuality and marked the beginning of her long engagement with feminist filmmaking. Nash has also worked extensively as a mentor and consultant with Indigenous filmmakers and Pacific Island women producers. She won an AWGIE Award for the screenplay of The Silences and is a Visiting Fellow in Communications at the University of Technology Sydney.

Filmography

We Aim to Please (1976, short), Bread and Dripping (1982, short), Shadow Panic (1989, short), Vacant Possession (1995), New Horizons (1996), Call Me Mum (2006), The Silences (2015), Undercurrents: Meditations on Power (2023, short)