Natalie made her first experiences in the film world as an actress at a young age and started focusing on writing and directing her own films after receiving her degree in performing arts. She is a genre-fluid writer and director and loves experimenting with new technology as well as diving into different fields of film production. Natalie’s films have been screened and awarded at numerous international film festivals, which is where she got the chance to meet film professionals from around the world. She is currently working on her first feature film as well as a TV series concept.
Skeleton Tiger
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Film
(Sci-Fi)
Writer/Director In the near future eating meat has become a crime and one gets punished by being put in a cage. Once a year, when the most important public holiday, "Skeleton Tiger Day" is celebrated, one lucky contestant of a live show gets the chance to change his fate.
This is a film about the absurd circus of humanity, in which humans believe to be superior until they have a moment of realisation, which often comes too late.
A Violent Noise
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Film
(Drama and Sci-Fi)
Writer/Director This is an unusual love story under very unusual circumstances.
In a world where real human voices can be downloaded onto a humanoid robot, there is no need to meet a partner in real life. But what if that relationship with your artificial partner seems so authentic that you end up falling in love, but the voice sample download is about to time out? Time to say goodbye?
Pink Me Blue
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Film
(Drama and Sci-Fi)
Writer/Director Imagine a world where everything you know is being questioned and old stereotypes are being broken. “Pink Me Blue” is playing with what we think we know, but maybe things could be different if we open our minds to a new world.
Romantic Sci-Fi Short Film written & directed by Natalie MacMahon
https://www.pinkmeblue.com/
The Funeral Dancer
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(Drama and Sci-Fi)
Writer/Director “The Funeral Dancer” tells the story of “Jazz”, who works as a funeral entertainer which has become one of the best paid jobs in a world, where funerals are a status symbol and at the same time an obligation to entertain relatives, friends and work colleagues alike. Expectations are high, morals are low. While Jazz tries to entertain the mourners, she is forced to face severe problems of her own.
language: German, available with English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and French subtitles
https://www.germanfilmsquarterly.de/short1_19_1.html
"The Funeral Dancer is an acerbic statement about our soulless smartphone culture. Multiple award winning director Natalie MacMahon knows what science fiction does best: it projects society forwards in time, so we can look back to view ourselves more clearly." (by "Short Film Reviews")
"The Funeral Dancer" is a thought-provoking film about mediatized cultures in which everything is a social media event that needs to be shared virtually to gain social capital. By depicting a high-concept futuristic scenario with colorful tones and manipulated reality, the director comments the undercurrents of all-encompassing contemporary social media consumption with wit and style. (by Largo Film Awards)
A Disease Called Love
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TV Mini
by MacMahon Media (Drama)
Writer/Director "Malsano Nomata Amo" is a new web series in Esperanto written and directed by Natalie MacMahon. (inspired by Natalie's award winning short "Universala Amrakonto" ("A Universal Love Story".)
This is not a love story, but it is a story about love. It is an anti-love story, about a society, where love has become a crime as it is considered to be an infectious disease and Esperanto is a forbidden language, only used by those who don’t follow the rules despite all consequences.
The web series consists of 5 episodes between 7:30min-9:30min.
All episodes can be watched right here:
https://vimeo.com/album/5763156
The Red Head
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Film
(Drama and Sci-Fi)
Writer/Director LOGLINE:
When meeting a mysterious redhead in a seductive virtual reality game world, it soon becomes impossible for Aven to distinguish between fantasy and reality.
Aven likes to take off his mind by spending his free time in a virtual reality game, which is set in a mysterious, seductive and ambiguous world. This fantasy world is the perfect contrast to his rather boring every-day life, that is determined by a monotonous callcenter job. Soon this game threatens to take over his life and Aven gets obsessed with a mysterious red-haired woman. What started as a game, eventually becomes bitter reality, where boundaries are non-existent. Has this game become reality or is reality nothing more than a game?
Minus Degrees
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Film
(Drama)
Writer/Director “Milton” has been suffering from a rare disease ever since he was born. His body temperature shows minus degrees and it is believed that he will never be able to fall in love as his heart is cold like ice. He is used to people's negative reactions to the coldness that's surrounding until one day everything changes.
A Universal Love Story
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Film
(Drama and Sci-Fi)
Writer/Director A Universal Love Story” is a sci-fi drama in Esperanto about the possibility of finding love in an impersonal world in the distant future, where everyone is so focused on himself, that it seems almost impossible to connect to another person. All that’s left is the memory of love and the hope to experience it one more time. It seems that sometimes it takes a miracle from a different universe to start a revolution.
This is the story about the difficulty of making a human connection.
The film is available with German, Spanish, Italian and French subtitles.
https://www.universallovestory.com/
https://www.facebook.com/universallovestory
Interview about the film:
http://www.wearemovingstories.com/we-are-moving-stories-videos/2017/9/11/a-universal-love-story
Review of the film- "Largo Film Awards":
Many things in human relationships seem strange and
alien. Alien is a keyword here, explored by Natalie MacMahon in a very inspired and creative way. There is nothing more strange than finding love where it wasn’t before or seeing it fade and disappear knowing how deep it was in the beginning.
From complete happiness to utter despair, "A Universal Love Story" reflects on the way these situations develop in a fictional setting still being developed: the future and its aesthetics, here seen in a very positive light. "A Universal Love Story" is different, is alive and is filled with hope. Romance can develop anywhere, and the beautiful future developed in the mind of MacMahon seems to be bright, social and positive, three things we should work hard to achieve by then.
It Is Getting Darker Every Day
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Film
(Drama and Sci-Fi)
Writer/Director n a world where light has become a luxury, a young woman who has been living in the darkness for the last couple of years, faces the last minutes before she is going to see the daylight again.
“Alina”, a young hard working woman, feels like she has won the lottery, because today it's her turn to leave the darkness for one whole day. While waiting to be picked up to start her adventure, she has mixed feelings about it and can't decide wether she should be the happiest person in the world or if it would be better to continue living without this experience, that could change her life forever.
Senses
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Film
(Drama)
Writer/Director Three different people who live in the same building have one thing in common- they are all loners caught in their very own world- relying on the routine of their every day lives. But what happens when that routine stops? Are they able to cope or does their world fall apart completely?
Anna, Martin and Leander experience life through different senses. To each of them one sense is especially important.
Anna, a theatre actress starts an involuntary relationship with a stranger who makes her experience different sensations in her imagination while Leander can't wait for the days to go by, so he can close his Antiques store and hurry home to listen to his neighbour play the guitar while he is having dinner. Martin, the third character, keeps going to the same restaurant for lunch every day, ordering the same dish until one day he is forced to make a small change, which seems to have a big impact on his life.
Like a Summer Sonata
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Film
(Drama)
Writer/Director “Two Strangers, one Secret, a lot to lose”
Paloma shares a dark secret with Stephen that she uses to play with him according to her rules. Torn in between being attracted and scared of him, she starts following him everywhere he goes, trying to find out more about him and his secret.
“Like A Summer Sonata” consists of four different parts that are named after the classical structure of a Sonata. The black & white element makes it a timeless, surreal film noir type of story in which several moral questions are being asked.
Lola Wants to See the Sea
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Film
(Drama)
Writer/Director This is a film about finding yourself while becoming a woman.
LOLA likes to get into cars with strangers- to get away, to take a risk and do something unexpected, dangerous and exciting. Every time Lola meets someone new, she makes up a story and identity. But most of the time, she calls herself “Lola” and tells them that she wants to see the sea. Hitchhiking has become her hobby and taking a risk her passion until one day someone makes her see herself in a different light.
"Oaxaca Film Festival" review:
"Lola wants to see the sea" is an aesthetic and original reflection on anonymity and thrill ”.
"This film is original and offers something very interesting visually. The use of a photography in the background, the choice of the black & white, the cinematography of the short. It all combines to create something unique that definitely appeals to the audience. It creates curiosity. It changes. The story and the idea at its core is interesting and definitely original."
The Secret of Berlin
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Film
(Drama and Sci-Fi)
Writer/Director "The Secret of Berlin" is a mystery/ time travel web series set in the 1920´s in Berlin. "Rosa", a young actress from the 1920´s, wakes up one day in a different apartment and finds out that she has time travelled to 2014. With the help of her new found Hipster friend "Nico" she discovers the purpose of her journey and tries to solve the mystery.
The Man Who Couldn't Cry
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Film
(Drama)
Writer/Director “The Man Who Couldn’t Cry” is a modern day fairy tale in black and white that tells the story of a man (Eamon) who never shed a tear in his life. Having watched other people cry, he realizes that he is different than everybody else. Eamon is fascinated by people who are able to show their emotions and doesn’t just record them crying with his camera, but also collects their tears in test tubes. When he meets Emily, a young woman who can’t stop crying, he overcomes his shyness and invites her to stay with him. Two strangers, who couldn’t be more different from each other, share an intense time together that changes their lives forever.