Hank refuses to give up on the family he is struggling to hold together. When his son is convicted of murder and his wife slips deeper into addiction, Hank is forced to re-evaluate everything he knows about what it means to be a father, husband and an individual.
Hank refuses to give up on the family he is struggling to hold together. When his son is convicted of murder and his wife slips deeper into addiction, Hank is forced to re-evaluate everything he knows about what it means to be a father, husband and an individual.
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Mission Statement
"Sweetwater Road" is a partnership between Hillbilly Circus, Vision Light Productions & Undivided Attention Inc. with the local community of North Alabama. It's our collective goal to grow the film community by empowering youth & other budding southern creatives a safe space to share unique stories.About The Project
Why Sweetwater Road in Alabama?
As a boy growing up in rural Alabama, Myk Watford was often torn between two worlds: athletics & art. He played football most of his life and that is certainly something most folks in Alabama understand well. But as he became interested in theatre and art, he noticed a divide. Most of the people around him didn't understand or know how to support a kid who wanted to be an actor. There were no examples of other kids from his neck of the woods who had pursued that dream or attained it. It just wasn't something people around there did or believed was possible. He missed the opportunity to have a role model to say "I did it, and so can you."
That is why Myk has come back to the area time and time again to involve himself in the arts locally. It is why he has chosen to make his first film in and about Alabama. Myk knows there are other young men and women in the state who need that example; proof of the visibility and the possibilities of their dreams.
Sweetwater Road, will utilize the community, involving young artists and filmmakers in the process.
Our team strives to inspire artists to dream big and avoid the naysayers. We hope 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?
Sweetwater Road and our collective team of filmmakers look forward to helping to build the arts in North Alabama and the surrounding territories, which is already a hot bed of music, and hope to inspire, spark and grow the film community by empowering youth and other budding southern creatives and providing a safe space to share unique and diverse stories through the cinematic arts.
Please check out our "TEAM" tab to learn more about our collaborators.
Thank you for your partnership in empowering diverse voices and becoming part of our community.
We look forward to meeting and knowing you all!
Warmly,
Team Sweetwater Road
Incentives
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Thank You SHOUTOUT
THANK YOU for loving us like family!
We would love to help you grow your online family with your own Personalized Digital Social Media SHOUTOUT badge of thanks!
We feel just as warm towards you like southern biscuts and gravy!
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Name in CREDITS & STICKER
We truly appreciate you and we want everyone to know it!
Sweetwater Road Sticker and your name in Credits.
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$100
Sweetwater Road MUG
You have quenched our thirst with your generosity!
Please accept our very own Sweetwater Road MUG to always think fondly of us!
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+ Name In Credits
+ Sticker
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SWR T-SHIRT
Thank you for giving us the "shirt off your back."
Now that is Southern Hospitality!
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+ Name in Credits
+ Sticker
+ Mug
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$500
Serenade Thank You
We love music just as much as you!
Please enjoy this song specially created for you by MYK Watford.
MYK Watford is the lead vocalist of the Stumpwaller band www.Stumpwaller.com
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+ Social Media Shoutout
+ Name in Credits
+ Sticker
+ Mug
+ T-Shirt
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$750
Virtual SCREENER & KEY CHAIN
Thank you for partnering with us to make our dream a reality!
We would love you to see your work in action and will send you Virtual Screener.
Hank also loves you as much as he loves that truck of his ...
We will send you an "I Love My Truck" keychain of your very own.
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+ Name in Credits
+ Sticker
+ Mug
+ T-Shirt
+ Song by Myk Watford
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+ Name in Credits
+ Sticker
+ Mug
+ T-Shirt
+ Song by Myk Watford
+ Virtual Screener
+ Key Chain
*Also a surprise gift from the Props / Costume department that was used in the film
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Featured Extra / Crew Onset
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We are look forward to work with you on location!
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+ Name in Credits
+ Sticker
+ Mug
+ T-Shirt
+ Song by Myk Watford
+ Virtual Screener
+ Key Chain
+ Invite to a Screener / Event with the Filmmakers
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This option can be organized for College intern credits.
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$5,000
Assistant PRODUCER & Film PREMIERE
You're now part of our team of PRODUCERS!
IMDB Credit is forth coming.
*Includes Invite to a Special Premiere in Alabama
PLUS
+ Social Media Shoutout
+ Name in Credits
+ Sticker
+ Mug
+ T-Shirt
+ Song by Myk Watford
*Also a surprise gift from the Props / Costume department that was used in the film
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$25
Thank You SHOUTOUT
THANK YOU for loving us like family!
We would love to help you grow your online family with your own Personalized Digital Social Media SHOUTOUT badge of thanks!
We feel just as warm towards you like southern biscuts and gravy!
Claimed: 14 of 250
$50
Name in CREDITS & STICKER
We truly appreciate you and we want everyone to know it!
Sweetwater Road Sticker and your name in Credits.
PLUS
+ Social Media SHOUTOUT
Claimed: 29 of 250
$100
Sweetwater Road MUG
You have quenched our thirst with your generosity!
Please accept our very own Sweetwater Road MUG to always think fondly of us!
PLUS
+ Social Media Shoutout
+ Name In Credits
+ Sticker
Claimed: 24 of 90
$250
SWR T-SHIRT
Thank you for giving us the "shirt off your back."
Now that is Southern Hospitality!
Here is your very own Sweetwater Road T-Shirt!
PLUS
+ Social Media Shoutout
+ Name in Credits
+ Sticker
+ Mug
Claimed: 10 of 70
$500
Serenade Thank You
We love music just as much as you!
Please enjoy this song specially created for you by MYK Watford.
MYK Watford is the lead vocalist of the Stumpwaller band www.Stumpwaller.com
PLUS
+ Social Media Shoutout
+ Name in Credits
+ Sticker
+ Mug
+ T-Shirt
Claimed: 2 of 60
$750
Virtual SCREENER & KEY CHAIN
Thank you for partnering with us to make our dream a reality!
We would love you to see your work in action and will send you Virtual Screener.
Hank also loves you as much as he loves that truck of his ...
We will send you an "I Love My Truck" keychain of your very own.
PLUS
+ Social Media Shoutout
+ Name in Credits
+ Sticker
+ Mug
+ T-Shirt
+ Song by Myk Watford
Claimed: 0 of 30
$1,000
Invite to Film Screening / Event With Filmmakers
Incredably thankful to amazing you!
It is an honor to have you attend one of our local events, screenings or Q&A's.
PLUS
+ Social Media Shoutout
+ Name in Credits
+ Sticker
+ Mug
+ T-Shirt
+ Song by Myk Watford
+ Virtual Screener
+ Key Chain
*Also a surprise gift from the Props / Costume department that was used in the film
Claimed: 0 of 6
$2,500
Featured Extra / Crew Onset
Thank you for partnering with us in the field!
We are look forward to work with you on location!
PLUS
+ Social Media Shoutout
+ Name in Credits
+ Sticker
+ Mug
+ T-Shirt
+ Song by Myk Watford
+ Virtual Screener
+ Key Chain
+ Invite to a Screener / Event with the Filmmakers
Note:
This option can be organized for College intern credits.
Claimed: 1 of 5
$5,000
Assistant PRODUCER & Film PREMIERE
You're now part of our team of PRODUCERS!
IMDB Credit is forth coming.
*Includes Invite to a Special Premiere in Alabama
PLUS
+ Social Media Shoutout
+ Name in Credits
+ Sticker
+ Mug
+ T-Shirt
+ Song by Myk Watford
*Also a surprise gift from the Props / Costume department that was used in the film
Claimed: 0 of 5
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Current Team
About This Team
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!
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