Martha Ansara
Martha Ansara | |
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| Born | United States |
| Citizenship | Australian |
| Alma mater | Australian Film, Television and Radio School, University of Technology, Sydney |
| Occupation(s) | Documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1969–present |
| Employer | Ballad Films |
Martha Ansara is a US-born Australian documentary filmmaker, writer, oral historian, and educator. Ansara was one of the first women in Australia to work as a cinematographer, and a founding member and/or convenor of the Sydney Women's Film Group in the early 1970s, the Film and Broadcast Industries Oral History Group, the Archive Forum (which lobbied for the establishment of the National Film and Sound Archive as a statutory body), and of Ozdox, the Australian Documentary Forum.