Margaret Byrne

Award-winning filmmaker Margaret Byrne, directed and produced Raising Bertie (POV 2017), a feature documentary following the lives of three African American boys growing up in rural North Carolina. Her 2021 HotDocs premiere, Any Given Day, is an ITVS co-production that follows three people that were incarcerated for crimes related to their illness and released into the care of a mental health court. Some of her previous credits include The Big Payback (2022), Surge (2020), Waging Change (2019), Generation Wealth (2018), All the Queen’s Horses (2017), and American Promise (2014). She was previously a creative director at Universal Music and directed live concerts and music videos for artists such as Jay-Z and Mary J. Blige. Byrne is an adjunct professor at Columbia College.