Excerpts from my film Friend to Me and the Sea. Password for film available upon request.
About!
Meag is a NYC documentary filmmaker and editor with a Bachelor’s of Science in Film and Media from the Fashion Institute of Technology. She is a recipient of the Stanley Solomon Scholarship, a grant elevating female filmmakers of academic achievement. Notable commercial clients include Cartoon Network and lululemon Studio. She works largely in the Adobe Suite and Premiere Productions and is experienced in transcribing archive, pulling selects, assembling supercuts and attending story meetings. She also has a Sony FX3 with 24-70mm and a 70-200m zoom lenses. Meag is seeking directorial and editorial roles in conservation, climate, and environmental projects.
Originally from rural upstate NY, Meag spent early childhood in a blue collar family. Unable to afford cable television, she spent much of her time watching public access television and the VHS documentaries her grandfather would mail her from Indiana. Insomnia and asthma inhibiting sleep from birth, she would spend many nights thumbing through the National Geographic magazines he subscribed her to on his dollar. Compelled by the memory of these real life stories, Meag is driven to uncover more from perspectives that are often unseen.
Meag is particularly drawn to conservation storytelling from the angle of human overlap and influence, which she explores in her upcoming short doc Friend To Me and The Sea. Their work also champions advocacy for incarcerated people, assistant editing for the upcoming feature documentary Inmate Corrections Television by Brooklyn Underground Films, which was showcased at the 2023 and 2024 Tribeca Creators’ Market.
Climate Kids
Title Sequence, 1 min. 2023. Director, Editor, Sound Mixer.
For a spec docuseries detailing the projected impacts of climate change children will face in their lifetime.
Edited for Filmsupply’s 2023 Editfest, a challenge to create a 60 second title sequence, trailer, or advertisement using stock footage.
Sophie’s Calling
Social Documentary, 2 min, 2019. Director, Editor, Cinematographer
A portrait of Sophie Sandberg, street harassment activist and founder of @CatCallsOfNYC on Instagram. Taking thousands of street harassment stories from across the city, Sophie returns to the site they occurred to write the words said- for everyone to see.
Control Freak
Fashion Documentary, 4 min. 2022. Director, Editor, Co-Cinematographer.
Rachel Hunter, a New York Fashion designer, silently permits strangers to paint over the strait-jacket she. designed, constructed, and modeled herself.
The garment and the accompanying film was on exhibit at the Fashion Institute of Technology from December 2022 through January 2023. CONTROL FREAK later screened as a part of The Society of Film and Visual Art’s Annual Short Film Festival at St. John’s University on April 22nd, 2023.
RECALL
Narrative Thriller, 7 min, 2022. Director, Co-Writer, Co-Editor
In a future reality, two roommates must decide what to do when their A.I friend is recalled by a government agency.
Starring Liam Walker, Jack Eddings, and John T. Mullen (Olive Kitteridge, Toru)
Cats with Wings
Wildlife Documentary, 43 secs. 2024. Director, Editor, Cinematographer.
10,000 years ago, rock doves were domesticated for food, messaging, and companionship. Known as pigeons, they were widely abandoned after the rise of radio and telephone. Ian, a DJ in NYC, and others keep the ancient practice of pigeon keeping alive.
This clip generated over 3.7 million views, 162k likes, 34k shares and 1,000 comments on Instagram reels.
Darkroom Fundraising Video
Promo, 2 min, 2024. Editor, Voice over
A quick overview of “Darkroom”, a narrative I co-directed, for its post-production fundraiser on Seed&Spark. The film and it’s crowdfund were published about in the Times Union.
This campaign was greenlit, earning 95% of its post-production goal and raising $4,232.
As content editor from 2022-2023, Meag edited fitness classes and trailers for the lululemon Studio MIRROR hardware and lululemon app. Partnering with fitness brands such as AKT, Pure Barre and Forward_Space, she specialized in color accuracy of brand colors and lululemon products. They also sound mixed and balanced classes with their licensed music library and resolved production issues in post.
Inmate Corrections Television
Documentary Feature
As assistant editor, Meag is responsible for the logging and transcription of over 200 hours of archival tapes. Meag also participated in a pitch intensive with Brooklyn Underground Films at the 2024 Tribeca Creators’ Market. The film is a recipient of the Catapult Film Fund development grant and supported by the Artemis Rising foundation.
A film that shows a first-person account of incarceration through Sam Ormes’ incredible effort to bring a sense of humanity to the long forgotten men of Miami’s Dade-County Jail through their participation in a closed circuit Television Channel. Produced by Trisha Koury and Co-Directed by Myles Kane and Josh Koury (Voyeur, I’ll Be Gone in The Dark, Journey to Planet X)
As an additional editor on Cartoon Network’s “Garbage Boy and Trash Can”, Meag worked immediately with director Mike de Seve to implement feedback to animators, retime animatics and record scratch tracks. Meag contributed to episodes 6 and 7, which aired on Cartoon Network Africa.
As marketing fellow, Meag supported the documentary “A Peace of Science” promotionally and in distribution. The film champions the power of science diplomacy in peace negotiations, following the lucrative invitation to Western volcanologists to study the little understood Mount Paektu.
Meag contacted hundreds of universities internationally to coordinate on campus screenings for students of international relations, diplomacy, conflict resolution, peace-building, science diplomacy, and Asian affairs. They also lead the cross-promotional campaign with the American Association for the Advancement of Science for the documentary's public screening and webcast. Additionally, Meag interviewed seismologist James Hammond, who lead the study of Mount Paektu and later became director of the Mount Paektu Research Centre. The resulting interview was edited and shared on social platforms.
A 30-minute educational documentary focused on empowering next-generation practitioners on the importance of science engagement in building better relations between countries.