MARGHERITA GIUSTI became interested in cinema at an early age. After completing her high school diploma at a liceo classico (classical civilisation and languages), she took a directing course at Cinecittà and made the stereoscopic 3D short film Beato Chi Riceve La Grazia, which was selected in the “Italian Perspectives” category at the 2012 Rome Film Festival. Thereafter she began to work in film and TV in Rome, as an assistant director and storyboard artist.

In 2017, she trained in animation at Turin’s Centro Sperimentale, graduating with the animated documentary En Rang Par Deux, co-directed with Elisabetta Bosco and Viola Mancini. The film was picked for various festivals, winning Best Film at Glocal, Best Student Film at Imaginaria Film Festival, the Audience Prize at the Monstra Animated Film Festival in Lisbon, and finishing third in its category at Italy’s foremost film awards, the Nastri D’Argento.

In 2021 she created the animated logo for SHE DEVIL, an all-female curating collective founded by Stefania Miscetti, whose constantly evolving archive continues to grow.

In 2021, together with Elisabetta Bosco, Elisa Bonandin and Viola Mancini she set up MUTA, an animation collective focusing on experimental and auteur work.

In 2023 she directed the animated documentary short, The Meatseller, produced by Luca Guadagnino’s Frenesy Film Company and selected for the 2023 Venice Film Festival in the Orizzonti (‘Horizons’) short film category.

Currently based in Rome, she works as a freelance director and animator.