Margaret Sixel (Editor) has been involved in the Australian Film Industry for more than 30 years, working both as picture and sound editor, as well as a writer, teacher and script editor.  A graduate of the Australian Film Television and Radio School and University of Cape Town, she has worked on many award-winning dramas and documentaries.

Sixel most recently edited Mad Max: Fury Road  (2015) for which she won the Academy Award, Bafta and American Cinema Editor Eddie Award.  She also edited George Miller’s Happy Feet (2006), which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.  She edited the director’s Babe: Pig in the City (1998) and his personal look at the Australian film industry, White Fellas Dreaming: A Century of Australian Cinema. 

Sixel also worked on such features as Lorenzo’s Oil, Flirting, Romero, in addition to a number of  television projects such as Fragments of War: The Story of Damien Parer and The Clean Machine.

Appearing at:

Mad Max: Fury Road (with George Miller)
Saturday 6.30pm, School of the Arts