
Directing
Mackie Mallison
Mackie Mallison is a filmmaker living in Brooklyn, New York. Named one of Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces of Independent Film" in 2023, his work has screened at New York Film Festival, SXSW, Palm Springs, BAM, SIFF, and BFI London Film Festival.
Acting credits
Behind the camera
NRTaking its title from the Japanese onomatopoeia for bird sound, this is a lyrical, dream-like portrait of the director's grandmother, her fear of flying, and her connection with avian beings.
Chuu Chuu
2021
NRTaking its title from the Japanese onomatopoeia for bird sound, this is a lyrical, dream-like portrait of the director's grandmother, her fear of flying, and her connection with avian beings.
Chuu Chuu
2021
NRAfter uncovering an old video camera, a boy longing for his late father makes chilling discovery.
CAPTURED
2016
NRAfter uncovering an old video camera, a boy longing for his late father makes chilling discovery.
CAPTURED
2016
NRThrough family conversations, home movies, and portraiture, It Smells Like Springtime explores the complexity of Asian-American identity and experience in dialogue with the artist and jeweler Ada Chen and a riotous cadre of kids. Together, they grapple with their ties to their families’ homelands, the paradoxes of representation, and their sense of belonging.
It Smells Like Springtime
2022
NRThrough family conversations, home movies, and portraiture, It Smells Like Springtime explores the complexity of Asian-American identity and experience in dialogue with the artist and jeweler Ada Chen and a riotous cadre of kids. Together, they grapple with their ties to their families’ homelands, the paradoxes of representation, and their sense of belonging.
It Smells Like Springtime
2022
10.0Live From the Clouds immerses the viewer in the intimate memories and imaginations of four women in the director's Japanese-American family, where everyday anxieties of shopping, paying the bills, and flying are ruptured by dreams of financial freedom and homecoming.
Live From the Clouds
2023
10.0Live From the Clouds immerses the viewer in the intimate memories and imaginations of four women in the director's Japanese-American family, where everyday anxieties of shopping, paying the bills, and flying are ruptured by dreams of financial freedom and homecoming.
Live From the Clouds
2023
NRTwo siblings are on a mission to stay up until the morning sun — fearing what will come once the younger brother falls asleep.
How We're Gonna Make it Through Till the Morning Sun
2020

