Ivy MacDonald

Roles: Director

Ivy MacDonald is a director, producer, writer and cinematographer based in Montana. She is an enrolled member of the Blackfeet tribe. Her most recent project Bring Them Home premiered at the 2024 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival. Bring Them Home is executive produced and narrated by Academy Award nominee Lily Gladstone. In late 2023 she co-wrote and co-directed her first narrative short film titled Buffalo Spirit, which will premiere later this year. She also helped produce Murder in Bighorn which premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and aired nationally on Showtime. Ivy also won an Emmy for her producing work on the 2020 ESPN shot Blackfeet Boxing: Not Invisible. She is currently directing for her second feature length documentary titled When They Were Here, a documentary about the missing and murdered indigenous women and girls crisis within her community. When They Were Here has received support from Sundance, IDA and ITVS.

2025 Program(s):
Bring Them Home