Oxford-educated brother of Andrew Macdonald and grandson of Emeric Pressburger, whose sympathetic biography, Emeric Pressburger: The Life and Death of a Screenwriter (1994) he wrote, Kevin Macdonald is a documentary filmmaker. His films include the Oscar-winning One Day in September (UK/Switzerland/Germany, 1999), about the terrorist attack at the 1972 Munich Olympics, and Channel Four's Humphrey Jennings: The Man Who Listened To Britain (tx. 23/12/2000). He is married to production designer Tatiana Lund, who designed Monday (d. Roberto Bangura, 1995). Brian McFarlane, Encyclopedia of British Film
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