Anna McGirr

About

Anna McGirr is a cinematographer and movement based artist working in Gadigal, with a dynamic cross-disciplinary practice in narrative film, documentary, art, theatre, and animation. They 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.

Their credits include Killjoy (Stan), Unbreakable (Stan), and Silenced (Sundance 2026), as well as theatre projects with Fruitbox Theatre, MonkeyBaa, Performance Space and Rising Festival. They 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. They finds their passion in projects that explore truth and embody authenticity. They are interested in the female gaze and how camera can create subjectivity as an extension of the human body. Anna’s 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), Rehabilitating,(Sydney Film Festival 2024) and If/When (Mardi Gras Film Festival 2026). Anna was featured on IF Magazine’s 2025 Rising Stars list and is currently co-directing their first feature-length documentary OUT THERE.