Michael B. MacDonald is a filmmaker and associate professor of music in the faculty of Fine Arts and Communications at MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and a research associate at Carleton University's Music, Sound, and Society in Canada.

Michael's upcoming book Cineworlding: scenes in research-creation (Bloomsbury forthcoming) will discuss the development of his cinematic approach. Developed in the confluence of neorealism and ethnographic film, Cineworlding is cinematic world building a research method that asks what does it mean to think in cinema, and how might we think together as we enter into the cinematic process of becoming.

His research focuses on cine-ethnomusicology, DIY ecologies of practices, and cineworlding music, musicians, and music communities. He has published two books: “Playing for Change: Music Festivals as Community Learning and Development” and “Remix and Life Hack in Hip Hop: Towards a Critical Pedagogy of Music” with two books coming: "CineWorlding: scenes in cinematic research-creation" (Bloomsbury forthcoming) and "Make Your Own Damn Film, DIWYF".