Director  .  Writer  .  Actor
Founder of Dawning Film Productions

An official selection of the Montreal Independent Film Festival, "Leaden Hearts" is based on the history of leaden love tokens, coins given by prisoners to their loved ones. "Leaden Hearts" examines the power that objects hold over memory. Through this short film, we follow Catherine as she accepts her fate by making peace with her past, a past invoked by the objects she clings to. Full film is available on Vimeo and Film Freeway by request. Written & Directed by Megan MacDonald Director of Photography - Caroline Garo Color Correction/Editing - Jack Goessens & Megan MacDonald

Are there places we can truly ever return to? Can we escape to places that both sustain and save us? We follow Maggie and Sam through such landscapes as they ask themselves these questions just weeks before their wedding. Trailer for the narrative short film, "In Place of a Time Before". Directed by Megan MacDonald. Written by Damon Falke.

A day in the life of down-on-his luck office manager, Arthur Murray. With some strong encouragement from a self-help C.D., Murray takes a stand against the office bully and goes from underdog to Top Dog... sort of. Filmed on location in St. Lawrence and Jefferson Counties. This project is made possible with funds from the Decentralization Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the New York State Legislature, and administered by the St. Lawrence County Arts Council. Full film is available on Vimeo and Film Freeway by request. Written & Directed by Megan MacDonald Director of Photography - Cassandra Weed Assistant Director - Derrick Gidden Sound Production - Arik Hopson Sound Editing - Nico Fedele

"For The Love of Things" is an exploration of the physiological triggering of memory fragments. This micro-short is an experiment in affect film theory, and displaying memory on screen. Written & Directed by Megan MacDonald Featuring Hollie Grieg and Marijne Nieuwerf

Why do we feel drawn to places we have never seen? What can we learn from our past? What answers lie within our collective memory? In "Pilgrimage" we examine how our personal pasts, and ancestral pasts shape our future, and begs the question - Can we stray from the future our pasts have created for us? Written/Directed/Edited collectively: Susan Shaw Megan MacDonald Eoghan McGinley Hollie Greig Caroline Garo