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Born and raised in Ipswich, Queensland, Tony McGrath graduated from Griffith Film School and QUT Drama before beginning a career making dozens of music videos for some of Australia's best bands, including Regurgitator, The Superjesus, Spiderbait and Savage Garden

After two years working at MTV Australia in Sydney, he returned to Queensland in ’97 and joined Cutting Edge. He quickly became a go-to editor for Brisbane creatives.

In 2001, he moved back to Sydney and was soon travelling the world editing car commercials for Paul Street and making music videos for Russell Crowe.

He moved to Los Angeles in 2006 and in between editing promos and commercials, cut two narrative features, 'Borderlands' and ‘The Loneliest Road In America’. He also directed and edited the feature documentary, “The Fall of Occupy LA” about the Occupy Wall Street movement.

He returned to Brisbane in April 2015 with a deep body of work and rejoined Cutting Edge as Senior Editor.

In 2018, he became a Lecturer in Film at QUT Creative Industries with his main responsibilities being head of post-production for the graduating cohort. He also still edits casually for Cutting Edge and pursues his own short film projects

In 2020, he commenced his PhD in small-crew filmmaking and is currently developing a feature film that he will make as part of his doctoral thesis.