Nelson MacDonald is an artist from Cape Breton Island, Canada. He makes nonfiction works on small gauge film about the people, rituals, and landscape of his home community. Nelson’s 2016 film There Lived the Colliers, about the wooden duplexes built to house coal miners in his hometown, premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. His short film Edges, can be viewed on permanent display at the Eltuek Arts Centre in Sydney. He is currently documenting the murder of crows that surrounds his apartment each night and finishing a short about his friend the octogenarian folk artist, Murray Gallant. Nelson has also worked as a film producer and film programmer. Each year, as part of the Lumiere Art-at-Night Festival, he hosts an annual short film screening at the local drive-in cinema.