Gavin Macaulay

Gavin Macaulay, President of Locus MindWorks LLC, 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, New York City, and Washington, DC before ultimately moving to Madison, WI in 2014. After a short career as a mathematician, Gavin enrolled in film classes (production, film editing, and sound editing) at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He studied with directors Reeves Lehmann and Vojtech Jasny, cinematographer James Callanan, editor Richard Pepperman, and screenwriter Jennine Lanouette, writing, directing and editing three short narrative films. He also participated on numerous films as production assistant, production coordinator, script supervisor, casting assistant, assistant camera, grip, set decorator, prop master, sound mixer and boom operator. Gavin concentrated on screenwriting and producing while studying at NYU, writing three feature-length narrative screenplays, "A Family Triptych", "Liver" and "The Surrogate," and numerous shorts. His screenplays have been read by John Turturro, Julie Taymor, Sundance Feature Film Program, Harvey Keitel, Ridley Scott / Scott Free Productions, Jennifer Lopez / Nuyorican Productions, Langely Park Productions, Jerry Zucker, Universal Studios, Greenlight Productions, Charlize Theron, Guy Ritchie / Wigram Productions, Muse Productions, Sneaky Shark Production Company, and Mad Chance Productions. 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. He supervised a staff of six editors and served as liaison between producers, editors, correspondents and other support personnel. 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 co-production with WNET. He has served as researcher, production assistant, assistant producer, and associate producer; and as assistant editor, associate editor, and editor for television. Gavin is also President of Locus Films, L.L.C., based in Silver Spring, Maryland. He has produced, directed and edited two documentary shorts "The Greatest Ape of All" and "Apropos New York". He has also co-produced, co-directed 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 writing, 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). Gavin is also a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Social Work in Baltimore, Maryland. He earned his MSW in Clinical Social Work and is licensed to practice in WI. His internships were at the High Road Academy, a special education high school in Northeast DC, and Adventist Behavioral Health, a psychiatric hospital located in Rockville, MD.