Margo Guernsey is the Director and Principal of Time Travel Productions LLC, which she founded in 2012 to produce documentary films and related media. Margo's feature directorial debut, Councilwoman (America ReFramed 2019) is touring the country. The film is co-produced in association with ITVS, Latino Public Broadcasting and Rayuela Films LLC. Additional funders include Chicken & Egg Pictures, LEF Moving Image Fund, the Women Donors Network, Surdna Foundation, RI Council on the Humanities and many generous individuals. Her current project is tentatively titled, The Philadelphia Eleven. It tells the story of the Episcopal Women who were ordained as priests in 1974, against the rules of the church, and found themselves at the center of a media firestorm about who speaks the word of God.
Margo began her film career in 2010 as a producer at WPBT2 (Miami), and produced and directed industrial videos in the Boston area for seven years. Prior to film, Margo worked as a union organizer, development and communications director, and Spanish/English translator, always building multi-racial collaborations across class lines to inform the work of building a more just society. She has an MFA in Film (University of Miami), MA in History (Umass/Amherst), BA in History (Brown University), and she is a Tribeca/Camden/CNNFilms Retreat Alumni.
Margo works with teams that reflect the subjects in the film as a cornerstone of her artistic process. She draws on her organizing, fundraising and filmmaking experience to distribute documentary film in new ways, to empower people, and shift narratives. She speaks both Spanish and English; and she is a proud Mama of two young children, navigating motherhood, as an adoptive and biological mother, in a bi-cultural Dominican/American multi-generational household.
Margo began her film career in 2010 as a producer at WPBT2 (Miami), and produced and directed industrial videos in the Boston area for seven years. Prior to film, Margo worked as a union organizer, development and communications director, and Spanish/English translator, always building multi-racial collaborations across class lines to inform the work of building a more just society. She has an MFA in Film (University of Miami), MA in History (Umass/Amherst), BA in History (Brown University), and she is a Tribeca/Camden/CNNFilms Retreat Alumni.
Margo works with teams that reflect the subjects in the film as a cornerstone of her artistic process. She draws on her organizing, fundraising and filmmaking experience to distribute documentary film in new ways, to empower people, and shift narratives. She speaks both Spanish and English; and she is a proud Mama of two young children, navigating motherhood, as an adoptive and biological mother, in a bi-cultural Dominican/American multi-generational household.