Marcy McCall is an advocate, citizen organizer, and award-winning filmmaker now back in Los Angeles. She is developing the story for a feature film, McGinnis Ferry, set in the time of the Cherokee expulsion. Marcy lived in Georgia for 15 years and made a trilogy of documentaries there: CLAY COUNTY (2019, 15-min.), GEORGIA (2019, 56-min.), and FLAG BURNING (2024, 9-min.).

Festivals around the globe have screened her films including the San Francisco Black Film Festival, Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, and Visions du Réel.

Born and raised in a small industrial and agricultural city in Illinois, Marcy began her work in film in Chicago where she played an early and consequential role in the making of the legendary documentary, HOOP DREAMS. While on staff at Kartemquin Films, Orion Pictures, and Columbia Pictures, Marcy helped celebrated directors make their films including Gordon Quinn, Steve James, George Romero, and Barbet Schroeder. Marcy earned her bachelor’s degree at Northwestern University where she studied experimental film under Chuck Kleinhans. She received her MFA at UCLA.