Mary Matheson is a Scottish multi-award winning immersive director, producer and executive producer specialising in documentaries for impact. Her clients have included Sky/Comcast, NASA, Google, Lenovo, the United Nations, the UK Government, Save the Children and the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center. Her films have been broadcast on mainstream platforms like the Discovery Channel, BBC & Channel 4 (UK), as well as at international festivals and events such as the UN Climate Change Summit, UN General Assembly, SXSW, Sheffield Doc Festival, Annecy International Animation Festival & EarthX film festival.

Her interactive VR experience about the Yazidis in northern Iraq won the 2022 VR Awards for Social Impact and the 2023 Telly Awards for Social Impact. And her VR documentary Walk to Westerbork about Dutch Holocaust survivor Rodi Glass, was part of the VR Awards Best Social Impact winning series The Journey Back. Passionate about mentoring and diversifying those who get to create and distribute XR, Mary was appointed Professor of Practice in 2022, working alongside XR pioneer Nonny de la Peña to set up the prestigious Narrative & Emerging Media program at Arizona State University's Los Angeles campus. 

Mary cut her teeth as a journalist in Colombia, covering the capture of the Cali cartel for NPR, TIME Magazine and the Guardian (UK). Since then she has filmed in multiple post-conflict zones, focusing on untold stories and under-represented narratives. Her latest work "Witness VR" uses the latest XR technology "Gaussian Splats" to expose Russian war crimes in Ukraine.