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Bernadette Murray is an Australian film editor and filmmaker working across feature documentary, narrative drama, television, and music video.

Her work spans emotionally resonant, character-driven drama and bold, politically engaged investigative documentary. She is known for precision, restraint, and emotional clarity; shaping rhythm, holding tension, and using music with particular delicacy to anchor emotional tone across narrative, observational, and natural history forms.

Her recent feature Silenced premiered at Sundance 2026 (World Cinema Documentary Jury Prize nominee) and will open the Sydney Film Festival 2026. Other credits include Lone Wolf (Rotterdam IFF), China Love (Sydney Film Festival), and The Opposition (CPH:DOX, IDFA). Recent short film No Thank You was a Tropfest 2026 finalist and won the Chery Creative Acceleration Award. She is a trusted regular editor on ABC's Foreign Correspondent, where her work received a 2025 Walkley nomination and a 2022 ASE Best Editing nomination. Her practice extends into directing music videos and large-scale video installs, including work for VIVID Sydney and Art Pharmacy. 

Her practice extends into music videos (directing and editing) and large-scale video installs. She has collaborated with artists including Gordi, Jack Ladder, Jaala, Children Collide and Tilman Robinson, with installation work presented at VIVID Sydney and Art Pharmacy.

Bernadette is a Venice Biennale College Cinema alumna and is moving into producing alongside her editing practice. The First Dress, the debut feature from director Melissa Anastasi, with producers Bec Barry (Media Stockade) and Deanne Weir (WeirAnderson Films), developed through the Venice Biennale College Cinema program. 

Bernadette holds a Graduate Diploma in Editing from AFTRS, a Graduate Diploma in Animation from RMIT, and a Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies from UNSW. She has taught editing workshops at NIDA and AFTRS.