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, Macdonald 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. In August 2017, Macdonald presented at the
New Zealand International Film Festival the biographical documentary "No Ordinary Sheila", which describes the 9-decades-long life of the Wellington-based natural historian, illustrator and writer
Sheila Natusch. The movie was filmed over three years (2014-2017), mostly shot in
Wellington and
Stewart Island. Macdonald died in the
Porirua suburb of
Whitby on 28 May 2024, at the age of 80. ==References==