Kirsty MacDonald

Kirsty MacDonald is a post-graduate Film Studies student at Auckland University and has directed several award-winning documentaries. MacDonald has a background in music and performance as a member of a Wellington-based travelling theatre company. She has also performed solo throughout the United States and New Zealand for fifteen years. MacDonald has released five albums of original, acoustic, music and is even responsible for co-creating several animated shorts for New Zealand’s International Puppet Festival. MacDonald’s documentaries include: Black and White (2006), which explores the potent collaboration between intersex activist Mani Bruce Mitchell and acclaimed New Zealand photographer Rebecca Swan; Good For a Girl (2005), a portrait of the New Zealand Women’s Boxing Champion; and I Can Read You Like a Book (2003), an examination of the way in which one woman "performs" her gender and identity. Black and White earned MacDonald Best Short Documentary and best Emerging Filmmaker at the 2006 DOCNZ film festival. (07/09)

Black and White
A film by Kirsty MacDonald, 2006, 17 min., Color
BLACK AND WHITE shines a sensitive light on a subject that is too often either shunned or sensationalized: the experiences of intersex people (sometim...