Mac Watson is
a Canadian multihyphenate – filmmaker-actor-writer-producer.
Her feature, It Girl, is currently a quarterfinalist in Screencraft’s Feature Competition and is in the top 21% discoverable projects on Coverfly, which you can check out here. As of summer 2024, she is in pre-production on the short film adaptation/proof-of-concept version, Last Laugh, which she wrote, will star in, and direct.
She spent formative years in Toronto getting a degree in Political Science from University of Toronto, taking acting classes, and making short comedy videos, thus finding a way to pursue her childhood dream of making movies while getting a (somewhat?) sensible degree. She wrote her first feature-length screenplay on the old family PC at age 13 for a school project.
She first moved to the US in 2017 to attend UCLA’s Producers Program to receive perhaps an even less sensible degree than a BA, this time, her Master of Fine Arts. In her time in LA she has amassed a wide range of experience in the film & TV industry – she has produced several short films and music videos, adapted her award-winning student film Casanova into a TV pilot, optioned the pilot to a production company, and pitched the project to major networks, joined SAG-AFTRA as an actor, and recently served as a VFX coordinator on an upcoming blockbuster film.
Mac is also an alumni of the inaugural year of TRIBE, Insecure executive producer/writer Amy Aniobi’s writing talent incubator she runs under her production company SuperSpecial.
She joined SAG-AFTRA in 2023 and she is represented for theatrical by Julie Suronen at Citizen Skull Management.