Margot Francis
Margot Francis has extensive experience as an editor, both in Aotearoa and the United States. Television highlights include Outrageous Fortune, Saturday Night Live, and Bette Midler TV movie The Mondo Beyondo Show. She is credited as co-writer and editor of 2020 documentary The Girl on the Bridge. In 1988 Francis shared an Emmy Award for a doco about Broadway musical Sarafina. In 2012 she was nominated twice in the same category of the NZ Television Awards; she won for Katherine Mansfield biopic Bliss. Later she was nominated for archive series Decades in Colour. Francis is married to US-born producer Steve Sachs.
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
Dame Valerie Adams - More Than Gold
2022, Editor - Film
Mothers of the Revolution
2021, Editor - Film
The Girl on the Bridge
2020, Writer, Editor - Film
For My Father's Kingdom
2019, Editor - Film
Yellow is Forbidden
2018, Editor - Film
Stars in Her Eyes
2016, Editor - Film
Decades in Colour
2016 - 2017, Editor - Television
Decades in Colour (series one promo)
2016, Editor - Television
A Flickering Truth
2015, Editor - Film
Abandoned
2015, Editor - Television
The Brokenwood Mysteries
2014 - ongoing, Editor - Television
I'm Going to Mum's
2013, Editor - Short Film
Harry
2013, Editor - Television
Harry - This is Personal (First Episode)
2013, Editor - Television
Siege
2012, Editor - Television
Bliss: The Beginning of Katherine Mansfield
2011, Editor - Television
Billy T: Te Movie
2011, Editor - Film
Inside Outward Bound - The New Zealand Journey
2011, Editor - Television
Piece of My Heart
2009, Editor - Television
Roof Rattling
2009, Editor - Short Film
The Cult
2009, Editor - Television
The Pretender - Series Two, Episode One
2008, Editor - Television
Made in Dunedin
2007, Editor - Television
Rude Awakenings - First Episode
2007, Editor - Television
Dead Letters
2006, Editor - Short Film
Outrageous Fortune - First Episode
2005, Editor - Television
Baby Charlotte
2005, Editor - Television
Daughters of the Pacific
2005, Editor - Television
Nothing Special
2005, Editor - Short Film
Outrageous Fortune
2005, Editor - Television
Sweet As Candy
2003, Editing Advisor - Short Film
Toy Love
2002, Editor - Film
Mercy Peak
2001, Editor - Television
Virginity
2001, Editor, Editor - Television
Mum, Dad and Michela
2000, Editor - Television
Savage Honeymoon
2000, Editor - Film
The Topp Twins - Highland Games
2000, Editor - Television
The Topp Twins - Do Not Adjust Your Twin-Set: Speedway
1998, Editor - Television
Memory and Desire
1998, Editor - Film
The Topp Twins - Do Not Adjust Your Twin-Set: Otago
1998, Editor - Television
The Topp Twins - Do Not Adjust Your Twin-Set: Pasifika
1998, Editor - Television
Highwater
1997, Editor - Television
The Topp Twins - Do Not Adjust Your Twin-Set
1998 - 2000, Editor - Television
The Topp Twins - Do Not Adjust Your Twin-Set: The Beach
1996, Editor - Television
The Topp Twins - Do Not Adjust Your Twin-Set: A & P Show
1996, Editor - Television
The Topp Twins - Do Not Adjust Your Twin-Set: The Waka
1996, Editor - Television
Black Bitch
1995, Editor - Short Film
Heartland - Desert Road
1995, Editor - Television
Plain Tastes
1995, Editor - Television
Heartland
1991 - 1996, Editor - Television