Gavin Macaulay

Gavin Macaulay (born May 17, 1965) is a producer, director, and editor of documentary films. He grew up in the Town of Tonawanda, a suburb of Buffalo, New York, and lived in Los Angeles and New York City before ultimately moving to Washington, DC in 2000.

Career

After a short career as a mathematician, Gavin enrolled in film classes at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He studied with directors Reeves Lehmann and Vojtech Jasny, cinematographer James Callanan, and editor Richard Pepperman, writing, directing and editing three short narrative films.

Gavin concentrated on screenwriting and producing while studying at NYU, writing three feature-length narrative screenplays, “A Family Triptych”, “Liver” and “The Surrogate.” His screenplays have been read by the Sundance Feature Film Program, Julie Taymor, and Harvey Keitel.

After moving to Washington, DC, Gavin worked for ABC News as a researcher for “Nightline”, “World News Tonight” and “This Week”. In 2002, he joined the production staff of “Nightline”, with Ted Koppel, and “UpClose”, under the direction of executive producers Tom Bettag and Leroy Sievers.

Subsequently, he worked with the NewsHour’s MacNeil / Lehrer Productions on “Changing the Face of Medicine”, an interactive DVD commissioned by the National Institute of Health, with executive producer Joan Friedenberg and producer Ricki Green; Discovery Channel on the HD series “Driver X”; The Learning Channel on the feature documentary “Camp 911”, with writer/director Lisa Feit; and with director Karen Thomas and editor Anny Meza on the documentary “Exiles in Hollywood,” a Film Odyssey co-production with WNET.

Gavin is also President of Locus Films, L.L.C., based in Silver Spring, Maryland. He has co-produced, co-directed (with Helene Macaulay) and edited two feature-length documentaries, “Chema’s House” and “Frankie’s Mambo: El Ritmo Diablo,” which appeared on PBS affiliates WNET (New York), WGBH (Boston), NJN (Trenton / Philadelphia) and WQED (Pittsburgh). He is currently co-producing and co-directing “Hauling Trash,” a documentary featuring the New York City Department of Sanitation. His work has appeared at the New York Film and Video Festival and the Cinequest Film Festival (San Jose).