PERNELL MARSDEN

Pernell Marsden is a director and production designer who has worked in the film industry in Australia and the UK since 2011. 

In 2023, Pernell earned her first production design credit for a feature film on STRANGE CREATURES and later that year she received the Australian Production Design Guild (APDG) Award for Emerging Designer for a Screen Production for her work on the film SMALL.

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Pernell’s short film, THE MEANINGLESS DAYDREAMS OF AUGIE & CELESTE had its World Premiere at the 2024 Sydney Film Festival where she won the Rouben Mamoulian Award for Best Director. The film was accepted for screening both locally and internationally at over 24 film festivals (8 of them Oscar® qualifying festivals) including Slamdance, Fantastic Fest where it took home the prize for Best Fantastic Short, and the Melbourne International Film Festival where the film won the VicScreen Erwin Rado Award for Best Australian Short Film.