Talent Guide
Margaret Byrne
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- Discipline:Director, Producer, Writer
- Program Year:CNN Docuseries Intensive 2021
Bio
Award-winning filmmaker Margaret Byrne directed and produced Any Given Day (2021) and Raising Bertie (2017). She is currently in production on Fighting Time, a series that follows a former homicide detective and dozens of men that were allegedly framed with murder. She has worked as a cinematographer on over a dozen films including Surge (2020), Waging Change (2019), Generation Wealth (2018), All the Queen’s Horses (2017), and American Promise (2014). She is the founder of Beti Films, an all-women film collective based in Chicago.
Current Project
Fighting TimeLogline
Fighting Time reveals dozens of Chicago murder frame-ups tied to one retired detective. As innocent Latino and Black men fight for freedom, a former cop becomes an unlikely ally, risking his own safety to pursue the truth.