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BIOGRAPHY
Dr Magali McDuffie: Filmmaker | Researcher | Educator
Currently Manager, Education Partnerships, at SAE Creative Media Institute, working with our eight global SAE Partners.
Previously Campus Manager at ACAP Professional Year (ACT), ARC Project Manager (University of Canberra, Amplifying Indigenous News Project), Film Department Coordinator, National Film Program Committee Chair, SAE Creative Institute (Australia), and Academic Coordinator (SAE Creative Institute, Jakarta, Indonesia) (2019-2022).
PhD (Indigenous Studies, Australian National University), GradCert (Applied Anthropology, University of Western Australia), MA (Film & Television, Bond University), MA (Languages and Linguistics), GradDip (Translation, IPLV, Université Catholique de l'Ouest, France), UnivCert (Business, British Chamber of Commerce).
McDuffie is an internationally recognised filmmaker, researcher and educator, recipient of an APA Scholarship in 2010 and the Australian Watervale Award in 2016. With over fifteen years of experience working in culturally diverse regional and remote projects both as a filmmaker and academic researcher, her filmography includes documentaries, short films, national community service announcements, and corporate videos.
Her ongoing collaboration with Nyikina women in the Kimberley over the past sixteen years led her to her PhD studies in which she privileged the voices of Nyikina women, and looked at how these influenced cultural actions, economic and self-determination initiatives, through filmed interviews and narratives, using film as an advocacy tool (see PhD thesis here). McDuffie has continued to work closely with many remote communities in the Australian Kimberley and Pilbara regions, as a Community Media Trainer with PAKAM (2017-2018), training community members in video production and editing, and in her role as filmmaker, researcher and consultant with Madjulla Inc. (2007-present), and the Martuwarra Fitzroy River Council (2019-present). In her position as Film Department Coordinator for the SAE Creative Institute, Perth, Western Australia, McDuffie was awarded the SAE Australasia Engagement Award in 2019 and promoted to National Film Program Committee Chair in 2020. She then became the Academic Coordinator of the SAE Jakarta campus for one year, until moving back to Canberra to take up a role as Campus Manager for the ACAP Professional Year Program (ACT), in 2022. McDuffie has now gone back to working with the SAE Creative Media Institute, taking up the position of Manager, Education Partnerships, in September 2023.