Margaret Thomson
Director
The late Margaret Thomson is arguably the first New Zealand woman to have directed films. Thomson spent much of her film career working in England, plus two years back in New Zealand at the National Film Unit. Her NFU short Railway Worker (1948) is regarded as a classic.
Love of research, looking at facts, collating stuff ... penetrating into complexities and then making them simple - I loved all that. Margaret Thomson, in Julie Benjamin's documentary Direction...Margaret Thomson
