Career
He is best known for writing, directing, and producing the short films The Blanketing, and Clouds of Autumn. He also has been competing in the extreme sport Red Bulletin Crashed Ice since he was 18 years old. At age 15, Mack started his pursuit in film by editing together footage from the popular Xbox video game series Halo to create montages in which he posted to on-line forums and YouTube.
As he gained popularity with his Halo montages, he helped co-found a freelance video editing, motion graphics, and videography group called "Viral Design" in which all of the members were flown across North America to produce product promotional videos for companies such as RedBull, SteelSeries, and Gunnar Optiks.
The Blanketing (2013)
In the fall of 2011, Mack started a Crowd funding campaign asking for funds for his first short film The Blanketing. After 10 months of development and pre-production he began principal photography in the summer of 2012.
After he premièred the short film in his home town of Williams Lake, British Columbia on May 3, 2013, the short film was accepted into the following film festivals:
imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival
Toronto Independent Film Festival
Vancouver Indigenous Media Arts Festival
Red Nation Film Festival
Square Pegs IV Film Festival
Clouds of Autumn (2015)
After receiving a production grant from Canada Council for the Arts, Mack started principal photography for Clouds of Autumn in August 2014. The short film deals with affects Canadian Indian residential schools have had on First Nations families in Canada.
The film had its North American première at the Toronto International Film Festival and also screened at the following festivals, among others:
Vancouver International Film Festival
Ottawa International Film Festival
Tacoma Film Festival
Whistler Film Festival
imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival.