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A film by Megan McMurchy, Margot Nash, Margot Oliver, Jeni Thornley. Five years in the making, with contributions from hundreds of women and over 200 Australian films, FOR LOVE OR MONEY is a unique, superbly crafted pictorial history of Australian women.
Megan McMurchy is known for Apartments (1977), Sadness (1999) and For Love or Money (1983).
- Producer, Production Manager, Director
- Megan McMurchy
FOR LOVE OR MONEY also shows how women have fought and organised for equality and wage justice for over a century. This classic documentary remains relevant today as women continue the unfinished campaigns for equal pay, maternity leave and childcare, and still carry the major responsibility for caring and nurturing.
For Love or Money - a pictorial history of women and work by filmmaker-authors Megan McMurchy, Margot Oliver and Jeni Thornley is a companion book to the film of the same name (For Love or Money) released in 1983.
FOR LOVE OR MONEY is also a film about revolt. It shows how women have fought and organised for equality and wage justice for over a century. The film culminates in the 1980s, exploring the challenges that face women in the nuclear age. A film by Megan McMurchy, Margot Nash, Margot Oliver and Jeni Thornley
A concurrence of initiatives arising from the 1977 Women’s Film Production Workshop and the 1978 inaugural Women and Labour Conference, resulted in four filmmakers – Megan McMurchy, Margot Nash, Margot Oliver and Jeni Thornley – commencing a film history of Australian women at work.
109mins, 1983, Australia. More From Jeni Thornley, Margot Nash, Margot Oliver, Megan McMurchy. Read more.
