I came to filmmaking over twelve years ago with a broad range of experience including union organizing, a masters degree in history, and non-profit development/fundraising. I am inspired by workers on the front lines of organizing efforts, and Michel-Rolph Trouillot’s teachings about power and the production of history.  I believe film has a unique ability to engage audiences to listen more carefully to the voices that are silenced or excluded from our national conversations, this includes the invisible labor that drives our economy but goes unrecognized.
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I am fully bilingual in Spanish and English. Click on films to learn more about my projects.

Photo credit: Stephanie Alvarez Ewens

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Margo Guernsey (she/her) is a documentary Director/Producer, impact strategist, and founder of Time Travel Productions LLC. Her films include Councilwoman(America ReFramed 2019), No Time To Fail (America Reframed 2023) and The Philadelphia Eleven (now touring festivals). Prior to film, Margo worked as a union organizer, non-profit development director, and Spanish/English translator. Margo’s work has received support from Chicken & Egg Pictures, ITVS, Catapult Film Fund, GoodPitch, Perspective Fund, Ford Foundation, LEF Moving Image Fund and the National Endowment for the Humanities; and she was a Film Independent Fast Track Fellow. She speaks both Spanish and English and holds an MFA in Film (University of Miami), MA in History (UMass Amherst), and a BA in History (Brown University). Margo teaches producing as affiliated faculty at Emerson College and is a member of the Documentary Producers Association.

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