India Donaldson

India Donaldson (born 1984 or 1985) is an American filmmaker best known for the 2024 film Good One.

Early life India is the daughter of Mel Clark and director Roger Donaldson; she gained exposure to the film industry at an early age. Her parents divorced when she was a child. She attended Santa Monica High School and Vassar College, where she majored in English.

Career Prior to becoming a filmmaker, Donaldson worked in the textile industry.

Donaldson presented her feature-length debut Good One as a work-in-progress at the 2023 American Film Festival in Wrocław, where she was awarded a $50,000 prize to support the project's post-production in Poland. The completed film screened at 2024 Sundance Film Festival and the Directors' Fortnight section of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, where it was eligible for the Camera d'Or. The film later won the Grand Jury Prize for Best American Independent Feature Film at that year's Champs-Élysées Film Festival.

In 2025, it was announced that her next film would be The Chaperones, produced by A24, with David Jonsson, Cooper Hoffman and Paul Dano in lead roles.

Personal life Donaldson resided in New York for ten years. Shortly before the COVID-19 pandemic, she and her husband moved to Los Angeles, where they currently reside.

Awards and nominations Year Award Category Nominated work Result Ref. 2019 Eastern Oregon Film Festival Spirit of EOFF Ethos Award Hannahs Cannes Film Festival Directors' Fortnight Camera d'Or Champs-Élysées Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for Best American Independent Feature Film