Margot Nash

Margot Nash is a New Zealand-born Australian screenwriter, director and script editor.

Body Work (1988)

Death is a taboo subject but not in this stylised documentary about those who "make a living out of dead bodies".  (more)

DIRECTION:  David Caesar
CAST:  Margot Nash

Death is a taboo subject but not in this stylised documentary about those who "make a living out of dead bodies".  (more)

DIRECTION:  David Caesar
CAST:  Margot Nash

Call Me Mum (2006)

Kate is on a plane taking Warren, her 18 year old Torres Strait Islander foster son, to meet Flo, his birth mother, who is gravely ill in hospital in Brisbane. Flo hasn't seen Warren since she took him to the hospital on Thursday Island when he was a toddler and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Margot Nash
CAST:  Catherine McClements  •  Lynette Curran  •  Dayne Christian  •  Ross Thompson

Kate is on a plane taking Warren, her 18 year old Torres Strait Islander foster son, to meet Flo, his birth mother, who is gravely ill in hospital in Brisbane. Flo hasn't seen Warren since she took him to the hospital on Thursday Island when he was a toddler and ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Margot Nash
CAST:  Catherine McClements  •  Lynette Curran  •  Dayne Christian  •  Ross Thompson

Vacant Possession (1995)

Following the death of her mother Tessa (Pamela Rabe), a young woman, returns after many years to the weather-beaten family home on the shores of Sydney's Botany Bay. But the old family home begins to bring old wounds more and more to life. The story unfolds ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Margot Nash
CAST:  Pamela Rabe  •  John Stanton  •  Toni Scanlan  •  Linden Wilkinson

Following the death of her mother Tessa (Pamela Rabe), a young woman, returns after many years to the weather-beaten family home on the shores of Sydney's Botany Bay. But the old family home begins to bring old wounds more and more to life. The story unfolds ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Margot Nash
CAST:  Pamela Rabe  •  John Stanton  •  Toni Scanlan  •  Linden Wilkinson

For Love or Money (1983)

Using almost totally historical material, For Love or Money encompasses the role of Australian women in both paid and unpaid work, over a 200 year period.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Margot Nash  •  Jeni Thornley  •  Megan McMurchy  •  Margot Oliver
CAST:  Noni Hazlehurst  •  Margot Nash  •  Robyn Nevin

Using almost totally historical material, For Love or Money encompasses the role of Australian women in both paid and unpaid work, over a 200 year period.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Margot Nash  •  Jeni Thornley  •  Megan McMurchy  •  Margot Oliver
CAST:  Noni Hazlehurst  •  Margot Nash  •  Robyn Nevin

The Silences (2015)

New Zealand-born Margot Nash scrutinises the memories and mementoes of her childhood to understand the unhappiness of her parents, and the corrosive instability of the household from which she fled as a young woman in the early 70s.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Margot Nash
CAST:  Margot Nash

New Zealand-born Margot Nash scrutinises the memories and mementoes of her childhood to understand the unhappiness of her parents, and the corrosive instability of the household from which she fled as a young woman in the early 70s.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Margot Nash
CAST:  Margot Nash

Bread and Dripping (1982)

Women's unwritten history is passed down through memories. Shows women talking about their experiences of the Great Depression in Australia. Covers such areas as: aboriginal women; paid and unpaid work; mothering; marriage; women's participation in the political ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Margot Nash  •  Wendy Brady  •  Donna Foster  •  Elizabeth Schaffer  •  Vic Smith
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Women's unwritten history is passed down through memories. Shows women talking about their experiences of the Great Depression in Australia. Covers such areas as: aboriginal women; paid and unpaid work; mothering; marriage; women's participation in the political ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Margot Nash  •  Wendy Brady  •  Donna Foster  •  Elizabeth Schaffer  •  Vic Smith
CAST: 

Shadow Panic (1989)

Three women appear connected in this short experimental drama about internal and external states of emergency, about personal and collective shadows, about resistance and spirit.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Margot Nash
CAST:  Kaarin Fairfax  •  Robin Laurie  •  Rose Wanganeen

Three women appear connected in this short experimental drama about internal and external states of emergency, about personal and collective shadows, about resistance and spirit.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Margot Nash
CAST:  Kaarin Fairfax  •  Robin Laurie  •  Rose Wanganeen

We Aim to Please (1976)

A wild and unruly landmark feminist film about female sexuality, that not only touches the areas of paranoia, fear and doubt, which women experience in relation to their bodies and physical self-image, but which is also joyful, erotic and funny.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Margot Nash  •  Robin Laurie
CAST: 

A wild and unruly landmark feminist film about female sexuality, that not only touches the areas of paranoia, fear and doubt, which women experience in relation to their bodies and physical self-image, but which is also joyful, erotic and funny.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Margot Nash  •  Robin Laurie
CAST: