Directing
Meghan McDonough
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Directing
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Meghan McDonough is a documentary director, editor, and journalist whose work focuses on queer history and community. Her short film Old Lesbians was commissioned by The Guardian, selected for Aesthetica/Audible’s 2023 Listening Pitch, shortlisted for the IDA Documentary Awards, and screened internationally at institutions including the British Film Institute and the American LGBTQ+ Museum. She has worked at Quartz and NBCUniversal Local, and her freelance work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Scientific American, and Thomson Reuters Foundation. She is a BRIClab Film + TV resident (2024–2025) and is currently developing her first feature documentary.
Known for
7.6For the last quarter century, Houston native Arden Eversmeyer journeyed across the country to record hundreds of oral "herstories" with a mostly invisible population that is rapidly disappearing. Old Lesbians honors Arden's legacy by animating the resilient, joyful voices she preserved in the Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project, from first crush to first love, from the closet to coming out, and finally from loss to connection.
Old Lesbians
2023
10.0A batch of mushy sourdough. Two radioactive lizards. Three cans of Campbell’s tomato soup. When COVID-19 lockdowns began in 2020, people around the world began reporting more vivid dreams.
Invisible Monsters and Tomato Soup
2021
10.0A deranged man advertises his fried chicken restaurant.
Coxswain’s Chicken Kitchen
2021
Film credits
Behind the camera
7.6For the last quarter century, Houston native Arden Eversmeyer journeyed across the country to record hundreds of oral "herstories" with a mostly invisible population that is rapidly disappearing. Old Lesbians honors Arden's legacy by animating the resilient, joyful voices she preserved in the Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project, from first crush to first love, from the closet to coming out, and finally from loss to connection.
Old Lesbians
2023
7.6For the last quarter century, Houston native Arden Eversmeyer journeyed across the country to record hundreds of oral "herstories" with a mostly invisible population that is rapidly disappearing. Old Lesbians honors Arden's legacy by animating the resilient, joyful voices she preserved in the Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project, from first crush to first love, from the closet to coming out, and finally from loss to connection.
Old Lesbians
2023
10.0A batch of mushy sourdough. Two radioactive lizards. Three cans of Campbell’s tomato soup. When COVID-19 lockdowns began in 2020, people around the world began reporting more vivid dreams.
Invisible Monsters and Tomato Soup
2021
10.0A batch of mushy sourdough. Two radioactive lizards. Three cans of Campbell’s tomato soup. When COVID-19 lockdowns began in 2020, people around the world began reporting more vivid dreams.
Invisible Monsters and Tomato Soup
2021
10.0A batch of mushy sourdough. Two radioactive lizards. Three cans of Campbell’s tomato soup. When COVID-19 lockdowns began in 2020, people around the world began reporting more vivid dreams.
Invisible Monsters and Tomato Soup
2021