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Julie Meghan McDonald (born March 13,1961) is a global film executive, Producer, and Head of Production at MPC / Technicolor Creative Services, in Montreal, Canada. Formerly of Pixar Animation Studios, she has an MBA from the Lokey School of Business at Northeastern at Mills College, Oakland and specializes in large scale, 500+ shot animation and vfx for complex CG and live action blockbuster movies for global studios including Disney, Netflix, SONY, Paramount, Hulu, Apple TV.

Life and Career

Julie holds a BA in French Literature from UCSD and wrote her senior thesis in semiotics on Laclos' Les Liaisons Dangeruses. After graduation she joined the San Francisco boutique investment firm Robertson, Colman & Stephens in 1983 as a research assistant to the semiconductor trade desk, contributing to prospectuses for Intel and AMD prior to those firms going public. She was then assigned to the RCS London office to help launch its new division and was hired by University College London physics professor David Rees, founder of Hovemere, to work on upper atmospheric graphical rendering software for NASA/Ames in 1984 as project manager for monoclonal antibody graphical rendering in cancer research and to track the doplar radar shift at the photon level of Halley's Comet during it's North American pass in 1984.

After installing cameras on the NASA Jet scheduled to track Halley Comet, Julie avoided a fireball at NASA when she pulled out of a test flight prior to the jet igniting on the runway.

She formerly worked at Francis Ford Coppola's American Zoetrope on Angeiska Hollands' The Secret Garden