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Margo Guernsey
Photo Credit: Stephanie Alvarez Ewens
Director & Producer
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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 Officials (TIME Studios, 2024). The impact distribution for her film The Philadelphia Eleven (American Public Television 2025) topped 525 screenings. Prior to film, Margo worked as a union organizer, a non-profit development director, and a Spanish/English translator. Margo’s work has received support from Chicken & Egg Films, ITVS, Catapult Film Fund, GoodPitch/Doc Society, Perspective Fund, Ford Foundation, Surdna Foundation, Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, Democracy Fund, Institute for Responsive Government, Women Donors Network, Mass Humanities, RI Council on the Humanities, and LEF Moving Image Fund, among others. 

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films by Margo Guernsey
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Councilwoman
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Sky Neal
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