Mackie Mallison

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

Chuu Chuu poster
NR

Taking 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

Chuu Chuu poster
NR

Taking 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

CAPTURED poster
NR

After uncovering an old video camera, a boy longing for his late father makes chilling discovery.

CAPTURED

2016

CAPTURED poster
NR

After uncovering an old video camera, a boy longing for his late father makes chilling discovery.

CAPTURED

2016

It Smells Like Springtime poster
NR

Through 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

It Smells Like Springtime poster
NR

Through 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

Live From the Clouds poster
10.0

Live 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

Live From the Clouds poster
10.0

Live 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

How We're Gonna Make it Through Till the Morning Sun poster
NR

Two 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