Maragaret Loescher
writer_director_producer
Born and brought up in South Bend, Indiana, Margaret and her family moved to England during her school years. Margaret was trained as an Anthropologist and received her BA degree from Cambridge University. She then went on to complete a Masters at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, Manchester University. Since then, she has trained on the Advanced Programme at the National Film and Television School, U.K. and has been making films independently in New York City, London and, most recently, Norwich. Pulled from the Rubble is her first feature documentary.

Television credits include, directing an ABC Nightline 15 minute news piece about the bombing of the United Nations in Baghdad . This aired in late August, marking the anniversary of the bomb, and has recently been nominated for an Emmy Award. Margaret is currently directing three short documentaries for the series ‘3 Minute Wonders’for Channel 4.

Independent films include, Piece of Me, a documentary about the novelist Zadie Smith, that premiered at the Corner House Cinema, Manchester and screened in New York City; A Camera at the Addy, a short documentary about an inner city playground. Margaret has also been director of photography, camera-person, sound recordist and researcher on a number of documentary projects. She also teaches camera workshops .

Margaret has her own company, Beguiled Eye Productions . She is currently working in collaboration with Fulcrum TV on her second feature documentary about Burmese refugees in Thailand. Margaret hopes to continue touring with Pulled from the Rubble , taking it to University, hospital and conferences audiences once she has finished the festival tour.

info@beguiledeye.com