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Margo Guernsey
- Location:
- United States
- Languages:
- English, Spanish
- Issues:
- Economic Injustice, Labor issues, Voting Rights, Women and Girls
- Expertise:
- Impact Strategist/Advisor
- Cultural/racial identity:
- white
- Self identification:
- cisgender woman
Bio
Margo Guernsey (she/her) is a documentary Director/Producer, impact strategist, and founder of Time Travel Productions LLC. She is known for her first feature, Councilwoman (America ReFramed 2019). Her current film No Time To Fail was released in theaters in fall 2022 and is currently in the midst of a large impact rollout. Broadcast information is expected soon. She is in post production on a third feature length documentary film, The Philadelphia Eleven. Prior to film, Margo worked as a union organizer, non-profit development director, and Spanish/English translator. Margo’s work has received support from Chicken & Egg Pictures, ITVS, Catapult Film Fund, GoodPitch, Perspective Fund, Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, LEF Moving Image Fund, the New England Foundation for the Arts, the Democracy Fund and the Surdna Foundation, among others. She speaks both Spanish and English and holds an MFA in Film (University of Miami), MA in History (UMass Amherst), and a BA in History (Brown University). Margo is a current member of the Board of Directors of the Documentary Producers Association.
