Bernadette Murray is an award-winning editor and filmmaker with two decades of experience across feature film, series and short film. She specialises in cutting complex investigative and character-driven stories with precision, sensitivity and a strong feel for pacing and emotional impact. Her work is grounded in clarity and restraint, with a focus on holding tension, shaping rhythm and anchoring emotional tone.
She also works across nature-based and observational storytelling, bringing a distinctive sense of rhythm, place and visual flow to lyrical, image-led work.
Bernadette’s credits include The Opposition, Lone Wolf, China Love, Back to Nature, The Endangered Generation, and the long-running Foreign Correspondent for ABC, where she is a trusted regular editor. She has also worked on projects for National Geographic and PBS, and her films have screened at leading festivals including Rotterdam, Hot Docs, Sydney and CPH:DOX.
She is currently producing her first feature film, directed by Melissa Anastasi and developed through the prestigious Venice Biennale College Cinema program. The project reflects her ongoing interest in stories that explore identity, intimacy and emotional transformation. As a creative producer, Bernadette brings her editorial sensibility and visual intuition to shaping projects from concept through to final cut.
In addition to editing, Bernadette creates video installations and music videos, with work presented at VIVID at the Sydney Opera House, Art Pharmacy and Craft Victoria. She has collaborated with artists including Gordi, Hermitude, Children Collide, Jack Ladder and David Bridie. She holds degrees from AFTRS, RMIT and UNSW, and has taught editing workshops at NIDA and at AFTRS.
