Margaret McHugh is a creative practice researcher, video artist and an award-winning documentary filmmaker. She comes from an industry background working in film production and film festival programming and marketing. As a practitioner, Margaret has directed, written and produced over 16 video works. Her films have been screened at over 50 national and international film festivals, galleries, and online exhibition platforms. She has also received numerous Competitive Awards, Special Jury Awards, and Director’s Choice Programming selections. Festivals include - Sydney Film Festival, Frameline: International LGBTQ Film Festival (San Francisco), imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival (Canada), Adelaide Film Festival, St Kilda Film Festival, Berlin Independent Film Festival (Berlin), Queens World Film Festival (New York), Ethnografilm Festival (Paris), and Arte Internacional De Cine Y Arte – (Buenos Aires). Margaret’s current research interests include documentary film, feminist theory and screen production research. She is a Media Arts and Production lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).