Full list of credits on IMDb and full professional history on Linkedin.
WRITER
You can check out some of Mac’s writing including her feature It Girl — a current quarterfinalist in Screencraft’s Feature Competition — on her Coverfly profile here!
ACTOR
Member of SAG-AFTRA
Theatrical Representation: Citizen Skull Management — Julie Suronen
Updated reel coming soon! Private Vimeo links for recent audition tapes by request. In the meantime, here is a previous year’s reel:
FILMMAKER
CASANOVA
Short film directed by Marie Richardson. Written, produced, and starring Mac Watson.
“If Silicon Valley and Fleabag had a baby do you know what it would be? It would be a super horny computer wiz taking down all the men in the office one by one.” - WhoHaha
Cassie is a modern-day, pansexual, female Casanova. She also happens to be a a brilliant computer programmer. Cassie traverses the male-dominated world of tech alongside her startup's co-founder and bff Nav, all while adding names to "the list" -- the list on her phone of everyone she's ever had sex with.
FESTIVAL AWARDS:
2020 Topaz Film Festival by Women in Film Dallas - Audience Choice Award
2020 Canada Shorts Film Festival - Award of Commendation
FESTIVAL SELECTIONS:
2020 Official Selection - Pinewood Studios First-time Filmmaker Sessions
2020 Finalist - Deep Focus Film Festival
2020 Official Selection - Film Invasion Los Angeles
2020 Official Selection - 'LEGACY' The Film Club Toronto
2020 Official Selection - Topaz Film Festival by Women in Film Dallas
2020 Official Selection - Silicon Beach Film Festival
2020 Official Selection - Hollywood Comedy Shorts
2020 Official Selection - Canada Shorts Film Festival
PRODUCER
A$$ LEVEL
Award-winning music video directed by Alison Becker (Parks and Rec, Curb Your Enthusiasm). Written and Performed by Santina Muha (One Day at a Time, Dollface), produced by Alison Becker and Mac Watson.
FESTIVAL AWARDS:
Special Jury Award - Divine Queer Film Festival
Best Music Video - Loudon Arts Festival
FESTIVAL SELECTIONS:
2020 Slamdance Film Festival
2020 HollyShorts Film Festival
2021 Loudon Arts Festival
2020 Walla Walla Movie Crush
2020 Orlando Film Festival
2020 New Faces New Voices
2020 Toronto Short Film Festival
2020 Hollywood Comedy Shorts
2021 Austin Music Video Festival
Divine Queer Film Festival
Los Angeles Diversity Festival
Honorable Mention - Santa Monica International Film Fest
UCLA Producers Marketplace
At the end of the two year Masters program, three finalists from the graduating MFA Producers class present their thesis projects to an audience and a panel of industry professionals in event known as the Producers Marketplace.
In 2019, Mac was awarded the top honor in her graduate program — the Dan Angel Family Judges’ Award — for her thesis project pitch for Soft & Pink, a feature film written by fellow UCLA grad film student Zoe Ward.
The jury consisted of Chris Moore (Producer/Founder, The Media Farm, credits include Manchester by the Sea, Good Will Hunting), Lisa Stewart (Producer, Sony Pictures Animation, credits include Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous) and Chloe Dan (SVP Drama, Twentieth Century Fox, credits include I Love You Man, The Lovely Bones.)
