Judith MacDougall

Judith MacDougall (born 1938) is an American visual anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, who has made over 20 ethnographic films in Africa, Australia and India. Also a noted still photographer, she documented the tenor of popular culture in Texas in the early 1970s. For many of the films, she worked with her husband, David MacDougall, also an anthropologist and a documentary filmmaker. Both of them are considered among the most significant anthropological filmmakers in the English-speaking world and pioneers of observational cinema

Early life and education MacDougall was born in the United States. She enrolled in the ethnographic film program at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she met her husband, David. Together, they would go on to make some 20 ethnographic films, across Australia, Africa, and India.

Filmography Indians and Chiefs ( 1967) The House-Opening (1977) The Wedding Camels (1977) Lorang's Way (1979) Takeover (1980) A Wife Among Wives (1981) Three Horsemen (1982) Stockman's Strategy (1984) Collum Calling Canberra (1984) Sunny and the Dark Horse (1986) Photo Wallahs (1991) Diyas (2001) The Art of Regret (2007) Awareness (2010) The Queen of the Hills (2022)