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Margot Francis

Editor

Margot Francis has worked as an editor in Aotearoa and the United States. Her television highlights include Outrageous Fortune and Topp Twins – Do Not Adjust Your Twin-Set. Francis shared an Emmy Award for a documentary on Broadway musical Sarafina. In 2012 she was nominated twice at the NZ TV Awards; she won for Katherine Mansfield biopic Bliss. Her long CV includes Decades in Colour and The Girl on the Bridge.

Margot would come up with stuff I would never have dreamed of, but I see it and I would go 'you're ahead of me'. Ian Mune, director of 2011 documentary Billy T: Te Movie, in an 18 August 2011 interview with Flicks

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Dame Valerie Adams - More Than Gold

2022, Editor - Film

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Mothers of the Revolution

2021, Editor - Film

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The Girl on the Bridge

2020, Writer, Editor - Film

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For My Father's Kingdom

2019, Editor - Film

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Yellow is Forbidden

2018, Editor - Film

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Stars in Her Eyes

2016, Editor - Film

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Decades in Colour

2016 - 2017, Editor - Television

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Decades in Colour (series one promo)

2016, Editor - Television

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A Flickering Truth

2015, Editor - Film

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Abandoned

2015, Editor - Television

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The Brokenwood Mysteries

2014 - ongoing, Editor - Television

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I'm Going to Mum's

2013, Editor - Short Film

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Harry

2013, Editor - Television

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Harry - This is Personal (First Episode)

2013, Editor - Television

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Siege

2012, Editor - Television

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Bliss: The Beginning of Katherine Mansfield

2011, Editor - Television

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Billy T: Te Movie

2011, Editor - Film

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Inside Outward Bound - The New Zealand Journey

2011, Editor - Television

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Piece of My Heart

2009, Editor - Television

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Roof Rattling

2009, Editor - Short Film

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The Cult

2009, Editor - Television

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The Pretender - Series Two, Episode One

2008, Editor - Television

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Made in Dunedin

2007, Editor - Television

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Rude Awakenings - First Episode

2007, Editor - Television

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Dead Letters

2006, Editor - Short Film

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Outrageous Fortune - First Episode

2005, Editor - Television

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Baby Charlotte

2005, Editor - Television

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Daughters of the Pacific

2005, Editor - Television

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Nothing Special

2005, Editor - Short Film

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Outrageous Fortune

2005, Editor - Television

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Sweet As Candy

2003, Editing Advisor - Short Film

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Toy Love

2002, Editor - Film

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Mercy Peak

2001, Editor - Television

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Virginity

2001, Editor - Television

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Mum, Dad and Michela

2000, Editor - Television

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Savage Honeymoon

2000, Editor - Film

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The Topp Twins - Highland Games

2000, Editor - Television

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The Topp Twins - Do Not Adjust Your Twin-Set: Speedway

1998, Editor - Television

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Memory and Desire

1998, Editor - Film

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The Topp Twins - Do Not Adjust Your Twin-Set: Otago

1998, Editor - Television

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The Topp Twins - Do Not Adjust Your Twin-Set: Pasifika

1998, Editor - Television

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Highwater

1997, Editor - Television

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The Topp Twins - Do Not Adjust Your Twin-Set

1998 - 2000, Editor - Television

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The Topp Twins - Do Not Adjust Your Twin-Set: The Beach

1996, Editor - Television

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The Topp Twins - Do Not Adjust Your Twin-Set: A & P Show

1996, Editor - Television

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The Topp Twins - Do Not Adjust Your Twin-Set: The Waka

1996, Editor - Television

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Black Bitch

1995, Editor - Short Film

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Heartland - Desert Road

1995, Editor - Television

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Plain Tastes

1995, Editor - Television

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Heartland

1991 - 1996, Editor - Television