Margot Nash is a screenwriter and a director with a background as a cinematographer, a film editor and an actor. She holds an MFA from the UNSW. Her research topic was: The research, writing and visual preparation for a feature film. Her most recent film The Silences (2015) about family secrets won an AWGIE (Australian Writer's Guild ) Award, Documentary: Public Broadcast or Exhibition. The Silences screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival, NZIFF, the American Documentary Film Festival (Amdocs) in Palm Springs, Adelaide Film Festival, Canberra International Film Festival, and the Queensland Film festival and at Screenwave International Fim Festival.

In 1994 Margot wrote and directed Vacant Possession, a feature drama about family, racial conflict and the complexities of reconciliation for which she was nominated for Best Directing and Best Original Screenplay in the AFI awards. Vacant Possession won a Speciale Mention du Jury at the Films De Femmes festival in Créteil in Paris in 1996, and in 1999 three of her films For Love Or Money (co filmmaker), Shadow Panic and Vacant Possession screened in Créteil as part of a Tribute to Australian and New Zealand Women Filmmakers. In 2017 Vacant Possession will screen on SBS/NITV.

Margot has worked extensively in the Pacific running documentary training workshops for Pacific Island women television producers. She has worked for SBS and CAAMA as both a consultant and a mentor for Indigenous filmmakers, and for Metro Screen in the Multicultural and Indigenous Mentorship Programs.

In 2005 she directed her second feature Call Me Mum about mothering, family and race relations. Call Me Mum was short listed for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards as well as the AWGIE's, and received four AFI Award Nominations winning Best Supporting Actress Television Drama and sharing an Outstanding Achievement in Screen Craft, Television award.

In 2016 the Melbourne Cinematheque at ACMI honoured Margot with a retrospective of her work called Between Past and Present; the films of Margot Nash. More of Margot's creative work can be found at Australian Screen Online (https://aso.gov.au/people/Margot_Nash/).