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Cinematographer - Director - Producer - Filmmaker

Margaret Sclafani studied film at Bryn Mawr College along with her degree in anthropology, completing her thesis work in Nairobi, Kenya and studying abroad at NUIG. She grew up with a visual art, dance and theater background.

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Over the last fifteen years, Margaret has primarily worked in the camera department as a cinematographer, camera operator and assistant on film, web series, and creative content for The Tonight Show, Irish Arts Center, Whitney Museum, SyFy, Comedy Central, MTV, Red Nose Day, The International Peace Institute, Disney, Refinery 29, PBS, the Emmy award winning Media Factory team, award-winning Gage & Gage Productions and Firelight Media.

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Throughout Margaret’s career, she has continued to work in both the narrative and documentary space such as on feature films: “The Mend”, “Major Arcana”, “Bidder 70”, “Diving Normal”, “Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg”; “The Wannabe”. 

 

At MTV News, Margaret worked as the Director of Photography filming the celebrity series Personal Space and also social-impact driven content, like Person of Interest and Hold Up that focused on pregnancy centers, the last abortion clinic in Mississippi, loneliness in young people.

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At Parent Earth, she wore multiple hats producing campaigns about childhood obesity, urban gardeners and environmental food justice. Some other credits include: Director of Photography for “Inconclusive” (short narrative), “Without Fear or Favor” (feature documentary); 2nd unit cinematographer on “The Ferry” (Galway Film Fleadh premiere); technical director and cinematographer working within the Orthodox Jewish women’s community on “The Gift” (narrative feature). Recently she has been the cinematographer on short films “Bar Therapy” and “Square Breathing” and is in development on the feature, “The Long and the Short”. 

 

Margaret has also created her own work including the short documentary “Water Walker” on indigenous water protectors (premiere Galway Film Fleadh), received a grant from the Russo Brothers to make “Saints of Little Italy” (premiere NYWIFT Women Filmmakers: Immigrant Stories Series) and directed “We Are Here” (Best Drama nomination at Revolution Me Film Festival).

 

We are in production on a film about a composer's grief and dedication to his parents’ artistic work fleeing from Iran to Turkey. We are also developing multiple films: “Justice for Grace” a documentary about the criminal justice system’s effects on families, and “American Landscape,” a narrative about gun violence and healing communities through art.

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