Bill MacDonald
President- MacDonald Productions 

Bill, a former team member of Jacques Cousteau's Calypso, is a film producer whose mission is to document aquatic resources, marine life, and watersheds. He employs a high definition video archive of some 1000 hours to produce educational programming on watershed awareness. In addition, Bill makes broadcast quality promotional videos that capture the very best in underwater experiences at the world’s foremost dive resorts and live-a-board dive vessels.

Having been diving for over 50 years, Bill MacDonald has recently produced a series of films to create an entire presentation called SEA PULSE. The films present the beauty of the world oceans’ most biodiverse reef habitats. The threats to this world ocean are then depicted in the most recent Algalita program (“Synthetic Sea 2010″) featuring Captain Charles Moore, the dean of marine debris researchers.

In 2000 Bill began to work with Captain Charles Moore and his Algalita Marine Research Foundation to document the unfortunate build-up of marine debris in the world ocean. They produced a signature film: “Synthetic Sea” (2001) the first program to document the marine debris issue. “Synthetic Sea” has been translated into Japanese and Spanish and seen by millions on line. Macdonald’s and his camera kept following the Algalita researchers, resulting in another program: “Our Synthetic Sea” (2004) an award winner for excellence at the Santa Cruz Environmental Film Festival.

“The Synthetic Sea Story” (2006), added the result of additional Algalita research. The program is a thirty minute overview of the state of the art in marine debris issues.

Bill has documented the use of frigid Deep Ocean Water for sustainable human life support systems to help remedy climate change. Systems include OTEC energy, air conditioning, aquaculture, and dew point agriculture. (Dubbed the “Blue Green Renaissance”).

Recent DVD production provides Indonesian remote villages with sustainable fishing practices, and reef protection. Macdonald Productions is actively providing Broadcast TV with footage. Recently Bill’s footage was used for the background in Oprah Winfrey’s 2009 & 2010 Earth Day show, “Life After People”, and Cyber Network (Tokyo) “Plastic Debris, Rivers to Sea”, and his film “The World Ocean Trashed” won a NOAA award for excellence.