MargotFrancis
- 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.
Screenography
Biography
At 17-years-old, Margot Francis left Dunedin for upstate New York as an exchange student. When not attending her unfamiliar high school, she joined a group of poets and artists, shooting footage and creating experimental reel-to-reel pieces with them. Based out of a nearby art school and all older than her, the group had previously collaborated with pioneering video artist Nam June Paik, and promptly took Francis in.
Awards
2024 New Zealand Television Awards / Ngā Taonga Whakaata O Aotearoa
Nominated Best Editing - Documentary/Factual (shared with James Brown): for Black Coast Vanishings
“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'.”