Magali McDuffie

PhD (Australian National University, 2019), SAE Australasia Community Engagement Award Recipient (2019), Watervale Award Recipient (2016), Graduate Certificate in Applied Anthropology (University of Western Australia, Perth), Masters of Film and Television (Bond University), Masters of Languages and Linguistics, Graduate Diploma in Translation (Université Catholique de l'Ouest, France). Magali McDuffie has worked for seventeen years with and for Aboriginal communities across Australia as a filmmaker and researcher. Their collaborative short films and documentaries have been screened in numerous national conferences, webinars, international film festivals, and on national Australian television. Magali has been an educator for many years, convening the documentary production unit at the University of Canberra for five years until 2017, before moving to Broome, Western Australia, and becoming a Community Media Trainer with PAKAM (Pilbara and Kimberley Aboriginal Media Association) in 2017-2018. This position enabled Magali to work closely with many remote communities in the Kimberley and Pilbara regions, facilitating the production of multiple films for ICTV (Indigenous Community Television). Since 2019, she has been working at the SAE Creative Institute as the Film Department Coordinator of the Perth Campus, the National Film Programme Chair, and as the Academic Coordinator of the Jakarta Campus since 2021. Magali still collaborates with Aboriginal communities and organisations on film and research projects, most recently with Madjulla Inc. and the Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council in the Kimberley.