The Sweetwater Road team mainly comes from LA, NYC and North Alabama, it is a collaboration between Hillbilly Circus, Vision Light Productions, Undivided Attention Inc with the budding local creative community in North Alabama.

Our partnership is a collabarative effort to encourage the growth of the creative orange economy in North Alabama and the surrounding communities in addition to the already thriving music industry roots in Alabama.

MYK WATFORD is the Writer, Director

and is "HANK DAWSON" in Sweetwater Road

Bio

Myk Watford grew up in Russellville, AL which is 30 miles south of Muscle Shoals in North Alabama. He attended the University of Utah, where he was classically trained in theatre. In 2002, Watford was cast as a cop in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man, starring Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst. He also appeared as Roach in Trailer Park of Terror (2008), No Country for Old Men (2007) and as Richard Matt in Lifetime's New York Prison Break The Seduction of Joyce Mitchell (2017) with Penelope Ann Miller. Watford's television credits include CSI, Law And Order: SVU, Criminal Minds, Without a Trace, NCIS, The Mentalist, Breaking Bad, Bones, Scandal, Longmire, Lethal Weapon, and Bosch. He is also cast as Detective Morelli in Season 3 of HBO’s True Detective and as Eichler in the Netflix series The OA.

In 2019, Watford appeared as Little Jackie in Andrea Berloff’s directorial debut, The Kitchen.

He currently can be seen in "RESPECT" the Aretha Franklin biopic film in Muscle Shoals, AL.

MYK WATFORD onset at Fame Studios

with director, Liesl Tommy of "RESPECT"

Myk Watford on set of "RESPECT" with Jennifer Hudson,

Marlon Wayons, and Marc Maron in MUSCLE SHOALS, AL

In this year's Aretha Franklin biopic "Respect", Myk played the legendary producer Rick Hall from FAME Studios who was integral to the southern soul sound that we now know Aretha Franklin for. Playing a local legend reminded Myk of his youth growing up in Muscle Shoals, and he was inspired through filming to come back to the area time and again to involve himself in the arts in film and theater. That's why he has chosen to make his first film in and about Alabama.

MYK Watford as Rick Hall in "RESPECT" with other

studio technicians at FAME STUDIOS in Muscle Shoals, AL

Elaine Hendrix is "ADELINE DAWSON" in Sweetwater Road

BIO

Elaine Hendrix was cast in the short-lived 1995 Get Smart series. She has also appeared on the television series Joan of Arcadia, Friends, Ellen, Charmed and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and had a recurring role in Married with Children, User Friendly (1995) and Lez Be Friends (1997).

Films in which she appeared include Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, the remake of The Parent Trap, Superstar, Inspector Gadget 2, and What the Bleep Do We Know!?. In 2006, she also appeared in an episode of Ghost Whisperer and the movie Coffee Date. In 2018, Hendrix appeared in Christmas at Pemberley Manor, a Hallmark Channel feature TV movie.

In 2008 Hendrix appeared in two episodes of the now cancelled ABC Family show The Middleman as Roxy Wasserman, a succubus who works as a fashion designer. She was seen in a 2008 episode of Criminal Minds ("Normal"). In 2009 Hendrix made an appearance on the ABC show Castle and in the film Rock Slyde.

Hendrix has also appeared as Renee on 90210 in season three in "They're Playing Her Song" and "Holiday Madness". In 2014, she appeared alongside Charlie Sheen for a three-episode story arc as Warden Hartley in the FX sitcom Anger Management. She appears in the web-series Fetching, which is also a nod to her love of animals.

She also co-starred as Ava in the FX comedy series Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll with Denis Leary, Elizabeth Gillies, John Corbett, Bobby Kelly and John Ales.

On September 13, 2018, it was announced that Hendrix would appear as the recurring character Susan Andrews in the Fox series Proven Innocent.

Elaine is currently cast as Alexis Carrington Colby for season three of The CW's Dynasty reboot series.

Charles Parnell is "DEUCE" in Sweetwater Road

BIO

Charles Parnell is known for being the second actor to portray Police Chief Derek Frye on All My Children, and his excellent work can be seen in Transformers: Age of Extinction, and Bones. Parnell also provides the voice of Jefferson Twilight on Cartoon Network's The Venture Bros. He also played the role of Master Chief Russ Jeter on the TNT show The Last Ship.

He can currently be seen in the upcoming Top Gun as "Maverick," and Mission Impossible 7 both releasing in 2022.

Angus O'Brien is "Wesley Dawson" in Sweetwater Road

BIO

Angus O'Brien is an actor, known as Mark Williams in The Kitchen, Lightyears, Hightown, Blacklist, FoxHole, Rise, The Path and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Angus and Myk met and worked together in The Kitchen. 

Sweetwater Road will utilize the Muscle Shoals & North Alabama music community, involving young artists and filmmakers in the process.

The team of Sweetwater Road strives to inspire artists to dream big and avoid the naysayers. We intend to create a community of support in the area for young artists looking for outlets and opportunities. What better way to do that than to create an incredible piece of art right in Alabama? 

When you support the team of Sweetwater Road you are also supporting the series of other projects it will spark in the region. You are integral to helping us create opportunities for young artists and help build the local film economy in its young stages in North Alabama.

We look forward to meeting you all in partnership for this unique creative community we are building in North Alabama.

THANK YOU for supporting our collective dream!