Dr Magali McDuffie: Filmmaker | Researcher | Educator
(SFHEA - Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy)
Currently Manager, Education Partnerships, for SAE Creative Media Institute, working with our 8 SAE Global Partner Campuses.
Previously ARC Project Manager (University of Canberra), Campus Manager (ACAP Professional Year, Canberra), Film Department Coordinator & National Film Program Committee Chair, SAE Creative Institute (Australia), and Academic Coordinator, SAE Jakarta (Indonesia).
PhD (Indigenous Studies, Australian National University), GradCert (Applied Anthropology, University of Western Australia), MA (Film & Television, Bond University), MA (Languages and Linguistics), GradDip (Translation, IPLV, Université Catholique de l'Ouest, France), UnivCert (Business, British Chamber of Commerce).
McDuffie is an internationally recognised filmmaker, researcher and educator, recipient of an APA Scholarship (2010), the Australian Watervale Award (2016), the UN Association of WA Short Film Award (2019) and the SAE Australasia Community Engagement Award (2019). With seventeen years of experience working in culturally diverse regional and remote projects both as a filmmaker and academic researcher, her films have been screened on National Australian television, international festivals, and numerous national conferences and webinars.
McDuffie's ongoing collaboration with Nyikina women in the Kimberley over the past fifteen years led her to her PhD studies in which she privileged the voices of Nyikina women, and looked at how these influenced cultural actions, economic and self-determination initiatives, through filmed interviews and narratives, using film as an advocacy tool. McDuffie has continued to work closely with many Aboriginal communities in the Australian Kimberley and Pilbara regions, as a Community Media Trainer with PAKAM (2017-2018), training community members in video production and editing, and in her role as filmmaker, researcher and consultant with Madjulla Inc (2007-present), and the Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council (2019-present).
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