Anna McGirr

About

Anna McGirr is an emerging cinematographer and artist based in Gadigal, with a dynamic cross-disciplinary practice in narrative film, documentary, art, theatre, and animation. She completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Hons) at the Victorian College of the Arts in 2021 and a Masters in Cinematography at the Australian Film Television and Radio School in 2023.

Her credits include Killjoy, Unbreakable, and A Horse Named Winx, as well as theatre projects with Fruitbox Theatre, MonkeyBaa, Performance Space and Rising Festival. She also assisted Bonnie Elliott on Angelica Mesiti’s The Rites of When.

Anna’s work focuses on projects with female, queer, and non-binary crews and stories, and she has a particular interest in social outreach work supporting marginalized groups in Australia. She finds her passion in projects that explore truth and embody authenticity. She is interested in the female gaze and how camera can create subjectivity as an extension of the human body. Her moving image work and installations have been exhibited in multiple group shows in Naarm including at the George Paton Gallery, BLINDSIDE, Buxton Contemporary and Craft Victoria.

Other recent cinematography credits include The Sax (Flickerfest 2025) and Rehabilitating, which premiered at the Sydney Film Festival and St Kilda Film Festival in 2024. She is working on multiple feature documentaries and her first animation as DOP, If/When, is set to premiere in 2025. This year, Anna was featured on IF Magazine’s 2025 Rising Stars list.