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{{Short description|New Zealand film director}}
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{{BLP sources|date=January 2011}}
'''Hugh MacDonald''' (correctly Macdonald) is a [[film director]] from [[New Zealand]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nzonscreen.com/person/hugh-macdonald/credits |title=Hugh Macdonald |publisher=NZ On Screen |date= |accessdate=2017-08-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140227185456/http://www.nzonscreen.com/person/hugh-macdonald/credits |archive-date=27 February 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He has worked on films for the Government [[National Film Unit]] including travel films and historical drama ''[[The Governor (New Zealand TV series)|The Governor]]''. He has been nominated for an [[Academy Award for Animated Short Film]] as producer.
==Work==
Macdonald directed the short film ''This is New Zealand'' which was shown across three screens in the New Zealand pavilion at [[Expo '70]] in [[Osaka]].
In 1986, he was nominated for an [[Academy Award for Animated Short Film]] as producer of ''[[The Frog, the Dog and the Devil]]'', made with the  [[New Zealand National Film Unit]] and Martin Townsend.<ref>[http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/the-frog-the-dog-and-the-devil-1986 The Frog, the Dog and the Devil], NZ On Screen. Accessed 31 January 2011.</ref>
In August 2017, Macdonald presented at the [[New Zealand International Film Festival]]<ref>{{cite web |title="New Zealand International Film Festival: No Ordinary Sheila" |url=https://www.nziff.co.nz/2017/archive-1/no-ordinary-sheila/ |website=www.nziff.co.nz |access-date=1 December 2022}}</ref> the biographical documentary "No Ordinary Sheila", which describes the 9-decades-long life of the Wellington-based natural historian, illustrator and writer [[Sheila Natusch]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nziff.co.nz/2017/auckland/no-ordinary-sheila/|title=No Ordinary Sheila 2017|last=Randerson|first=Jo|date=2017|website=www.nziff.co.nz|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=6 August 2017}}</ref> The movie was filmed over three years (2014-2017), mostly shot in [[Wellington]] and [[Stewart Island]].
==References==
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== External links ==
* {{Official|http://hughmacfilm.co.nz/}}
* [https://www.nzonscreen.com/person/hugh-macdonald Hugh Macdonald] at [[NZ On Screen]]
* {{IMDb name|7844612}}
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