Episode 8 | Margot Bruce

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Margot Bruce is a film director and writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She earned a Bachelor of Artsat the College of Wooster, with a major in English and minor in Film Studies. She was a member of the NCAA DIII swim team and received the Dean’s Scholarship Award.While at San Francisco State University’s School of Cinema, she was a recipient of the Provost’s Scholar Award in 2019 and 2020. She graduates with an MFA in 2021.

Her 2019 short film, Come Home to Me, inspired by the death of her brother Cameron in 2010, was an official selection for the New Dreams Film Festival and received the Award of Excellence at the Canada Shorts Film Festival.Margot’s work draws on her identity as a lesbian woman, her staunch feminism, her love of fairy tales, her experiences of loss, and her fascination with water and the ocean.