Biography
Macdaleine is a first-generation, Haitian-American writer and director whose work captures the nuanced, extraordinary experiences of ordinary Black life. Her characters often seek freedom from the systems and structures that confine them.Â
In 2023, Macdaleine was honored with a Princess Grace Foundation Honorarium in Film and was selected as a Gotham Marcie Bloom Fellow. She was also a finalist for the NYU Sloan Feature Award. Her previous accolades include the 2022 Black Family Short Film Prize, the 2022 Sara Driver Production Award, and NYU’s 20220 Tisch Initiative for Creative Research HEAR US grant.Â
Macdaleine is currently completing her MFA at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She holds a Bachelor of Science from MIT and a Master of Science in Energey and Processes from ÉNSPM in France. Before transitioning to filmmaking, she worked as a program manager in hardware engineering at Apple and Square from 2013 to 2020. Her technical background informs the scientific themes that intersect her characters’ lives.
Films
dis•chord (2023)
Role: Writer/ Director
A mother and daughter relationship is strained when finances and dreams get in the way of a once loving relationship.
big friendship (2021)
Role: Writer/ Director
Two old friends come together and realize that the role that they play for each other needs to change.
A Breaking (2020)
Role: Writer/ Director
A woman’s morning routine is shattered by an unexpected video.
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