Mary McDade (she/her) feels most at home when she is collecting stories from her memories: the veins in her Mother’s hands, the glow of her grandmother’s eyes as she told a story in the midst of dementia, the synchronicity of her heart and limbs during a dance, and the shift in the air as a squall line moves across the sky in the spring. She was raised in the Arkansas Delta but calls New Orleans home.
With an MFA in Film Production from the University of New Orleans and a decade spent working in the camera department, she has found ways to bring her gathered moments to life. Her most recent short film, “Mama Love,” won the Audience Award for Best Louisiana Short at the New Orleans Film Festival. Her first feature film project, “Quake Thunder Crack,” was a finalist in the South Pitch 2023 competition sponsored by the New Orleans Film Society and Kickstarter.
She seeks to give a voice to the women who raised her, those she still holds close, and those she wished she had known through veins of memory, movement, instinct, and nature.
