Minna Squire

Profile

Story-first video producer and editor. Strongest where there is a message to serve and people to look after on both sides of the camera. Now contracting for a brand agency and cutting stories for purpose-driven organisations.

Experience

Over! Statement.

2025–present

Brand agency · contractor (current)

Edited campaign video and ads for Women's Community Shelters.
Designed research methodology systems and filing / content-storage systems.
Building the agency's website.

Film crew

2023–2025

First assistant director — Unspeakable, independent documentary (2025).
Assistant props maker — Relentless, feature film: balsa-wood breakaway chairs (2025).
Cinematographer — A Day with Nanna, independent documentary (2025, in post-production).
Director, camera, set & costume — Utopic Dreamscapes, five-channel video work (2023).
Set decoration — The Big Bang, UnHoly Cherry (2023).

Digital Content Coordinator — Camp Quality

2021–2024

National children's cancer charity · marketing team · began as intern

Produced and edited family case-study, campaign and fundraising video stories.
Ran in-office greenscreen shoots with talent for YouTube and social content.
Hired and briefed freelance videographers, directing coverage so footage cut to the message.
Shot and edited the campervan-raffle advertising solo.
Built the team's video-storage, filing and research-documentation systems.

Freelance

2018–2021

Groundswell — climate campaign video cut from existing footage (2021).
United Nations Association of Australia — video content production (2018–2019).
UNSW Global Dialogue on Ocean Accounting — event documentary video (2019).

Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts, Moving Image & Sculpture — UNSW, with Distinction.
Bachelor of Arts, Indigenous & Gender Studies — UNSW, with Distinction.

Independent practice

Directed and edited short films and performance works, including We Are Looking For Permission to Dream Again (2023) and Letter for Nanna (2022).
Edge of Bliss — five-channel video installation, No Reply exhibition (2023).
Utopography — Emerging Curator nomination, Kudos Gallery (2024).
Temporal Equanimity — film photography series (2025).
Pathways to Reimagining Futures — essay on Megan Cope, published in Framework.

Capabilities

Story structure and message-led editing.
Producing: briefing and directing videographers, running studio and field shoots, talent care.
Cataloguing and archive systems — filing, video storage, research documentation.
On-set crew work — art department, set dec, props, camera assist.
Safeguarding training (children and vulnerable people on set).
Languages: English (native) · Spanish (professional).