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Bernadette Murray is an Australian film editor and filmmaker whose practice spans the compelling complexity of investigative documentary, the quiet subversion of nature filmmaking, and the interior emotional life of scripted drama.

Her recent feature Silenced premiered at Sundance 2026 as a World Cinema Documentary Jury Prize nominee and opened the Sydney Film Festival 2026. Other credits include Lone Wolf (Rotterdam IFF, AACTA nominated), China Love (Sydney Film Festival), and The Opposition (CPH:DOX, IDFA). She is a trusted regular editor on ABC's Foreign Correspondent, where her work has received Walkley and ASE nominations. Her short film No Thank You was a Tropfest 2026 finalist and won the Chery Creative Acceleration Award.

Bernadette 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 practice extends into directing music videos and large-scale video installations, with work presented at VIVID Sydney at the Sydney Opera House, Art Pharmacy, and Craft Victoria. Collaborators include Gordi, Jack Ladder, Children Collide, Jaala, and Tilman Robinson.

She is a Venice Biennale College Cinema alumna, developing her producing practice alongside her editorial work.

She 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.

EDITING & CRAFT AWARDS

Walkley Award nomination · More Than a Kiss, ABC Foreign Correspondent (2025)

Sundance World Cinema Documentary Jury Prize nomination · Silenced (2026)

AACTA nomination · Best Independent Film, Lone Wolf (2021)

Rotterdam IFF Big Screen Award nomination · Lone Wolf (2021)

ASE nomination · Best Editing, Dead White Man's Clothes, ABC Foreign Correspondent (2022)

ASE nomination · Best Editing, Delegate (2013)

Best Visual Effects nomination · Hold My Hand, Austin Music Video Festival (2019)

Best Music Video nomination · Workhorse, ORION IFF (2021)

Finalist · Sames, ORION IFF (2019)

Sydney Film Festival Digital Media Showcase · Ropes (2005)

OTHER PROMINENT ACHIEVEMENTS

Winner · Chery Creative Acceleration Award (as editor), No Thank You, Tropfest (2026)

Winner · Grand Prize of the Jury, FIFO 2017, The Opposition

Winner · Best Documentary, OzFlix Independent Film Awards 2018, The Opposition

Winner · Best Feature Documentary, Screen Producers Australia Awards 2017, The Opposition

Nomination · Best Documentary Feature, Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2017, The Opposition

Winner · Best Human Interest Documentary, AIB Awards London 2017, The Surgery Ship

AACTA Winner · Best Documentary Television Program, Redesign My Brain (2014) (Additional Editor)

ATOM Winner · Best Factual Television Series & Best Documentary Science/Technology, Redesign My Brain (2014) (Additional Editor)

AACTA nomination · Best Documentary or Factual Program, The Family Court Murders (2022)

AACTA nomination · Australian Documentary Prize, China Love, Sydney Film Festival (2018)

Winner · Napa Valley Film Festival, The Dam (2014)

Winner · River Run International, The Dam (2014)

Winner · Short Sweet Film Fest US, The Comedian (2013)

NY Festivals TV & Film Awards Finalist · Forging the Future (2021)

Tropfest 2026 Finalist · No Thank You