Will Mayo

Birth : 1991-10-24,

History

Director, writer, cinematographer, sound designer. Will grew up on a horse farm in Thompson's Station, TN, before moving to NYC to attend NYU's Tisch School of the Arts for Film and Television Production. His experimental student work, CONSUMED (2013) and THIS IS HOW YOU HAUNT YOUR HOUSE (2014), was recognized by NYU and popular internet blogs. His first narrative short outside school, FIRST NIGHT OUT (2015), premiered at NewFest: New York's LGBT Film Festival in 2015. He resides in Brooklyn where he works as a freelance cinematographer and sound designer. Notable cinematographic work includes the award-winning short films AN CRANN (2015) and THE RED CARD (2015).

Movies

Summer Solstice
Sound Designer
Trans man Leo's idyllic summer housesitting gig veers off course when his straight, cisgender friend Eleanor shows up for a weekend. These two friends come to realize that their once natural and easy sense of connection is now more tenuous than they'd like to believe.
CANS Can't Stand
Editor
Since 1982, police have weaponized Louisiana’s Crime Against Nature by Solicitation (CANS) law to terrorize queer/trans Louisianians. CANS Can’t Stand follows a group of Black trans women in New Orleans who are fighting to repeal that law—and advance trans liberation statewide.
Starfuckers
Editor
An intimate evening between a film director and an escort is disrupted when a familiar face arrives.
Real Talk
Editor
A woman goes on a daytime show to confront a famous music producer of sexual harassment, only to find him armed with the “perfect apology.”
1781
Editor
'1781' explores a queer possibility in the lives of two young men in the 18th century.
Anita
Editor
While attending her sister’s wedding in India, Anita tells her family of some big news and is pushed to question whether her life in America is any better than those in her hometown.
See You Soon
Editor
A tender queer romance about a gay man who travels across the country to spend the weekend with someone he met on a dating app.
Union County
Editor
Cody is a recovering opiate addict in rural Ohio, 45 days clean and enlisted in a strictly enforced drug court programme by the county government. Local sober-living facilities are full, so Cody is living in his car on the outskirts of town and working at the nearby lumber mill to save money and keep busy. But his past doesn't want to forget him.
Pancakes
Editor
An adolescent girl has trained herself to function within the walls of a dysfunctional home, but when forced to face reality she must choose between the love she has for her mother or her own well-being. Pancakes explores the effects of losing someone you love to an illness. The film depicts a child's attempt to be an adult in order to keep some semblance of a family together, broken as it may be.
Tithes & Offerings
Editor
A humorous satire about a Kenyan charlatan who claims to be a “miracle healer”.
Sacral
Sound Designer
When Silvia mysteriously goes missing in Chinatown, tension rises between the two people closest to her. Jacqueline Sir directs “Sacral,” a fragmentary drama about the messy relationships and social life of a group of young NY city kids. Told with blurred low-fi imagery and a constant sense of unease and disorientation, it’s raw as they come, and paints an authentic picture of an alarming absence. When Nadia can’t locate her best friend, Silvia, she seeks out her boyfriend, Max, the last person she saw him with. As their group of friends pre-game for a party, she doubles down on Max who is behaving suspiciously evasive. A mix of edgy realism and almost nightmarish paranoia, the film’s resonance accumulates from jagged shards into a haunting mystery.
How to Say Goodbye
Editor
Tom is a down-and-out bond broker struggling to keep his business afloat, a legacy of his brother who passed away on 9/11. Claire is a fledgling actress from a small town starting over after a personal tragedy of her own. As their lives cross, Tom must face the decision to let go of his fears and acknowledge deeper feelings for Claire or withdraw to his comfort zone. Tom's best friend, Simone, has an identity crisis and an appetite for short-term gratification. Mario, Tom's wing man and a wine enthusiast, must contend with trappings that come with being a womanizer. In the urban maze of New York, the four struggle to say goodbye to old ways to find a better tomorrow.
Buckets
Sound Editor
A girl learns the brutal sacrifices it takes to satisfy her love.
The Mess He Made
Sound Editor
A man spends 15 minutes waiting for the results of a Rapid HIV Test.
An Crann
Writer
Brendan and Aisling have lived together in the north of Ireland for twenty-five years. In their garden stands a cherry tree, long forgotten... until one day, their new neighbour chops it down. When Aisling informs their neighbour of her mistake, the woman invites Aisling to cut down one of her trees in retaliation. Brendan relishes the opportunity for payback, whilst Aisling is determined to forgive and forget. But the woman continues to wheedle her way into the couple's lives, and soon Aisling is forced to make a choice.
An Crann
Director of Photography
Brendan and Aisling have lived together in the north of Ireland for twenty-five years. In their garden stands a cherry tree, long forgotten... until one day, their new neighbour chops it down. When Aisling informs their neighbour of her mistake, the woman invites Aisling to cut down one of her trees in retaliation. Brendan relishes the opportunity for payback, whilst Aisling is determined to forgive and forget. But the woman continues to wheedle her way into the couple's lives, and soon Aisling is forced to make a choice.
First Night Out
Sound Designer
Late one night, a lady takes herself to dinner.
First Night Out
Editor
Late one night, a lady takes herself to dinner.
First Night Out
Co-Producer
Late one night, a lady takes herself to dinner.
First Night Out
Director
Late one night, a lady takes herself to dinner.
This Is How You Haunt Your House
Sound Designer
An instructional guide through the afterlife.
This Is How You Haunt Your House
Editor
An instructional guide through the afterlife.
This Is How You Haunt Your House
Writer
An instructional guide through the afterlife.
This Is How You Haunt Your House
Director
An instructional guide through the afterlife.
Consumed
Editor
A parable of fire and grace, hand-scratched on 16mm, frame-by-frame.
Consumed
Writer
A parable of fire and grace, hand-scratched on 16mm, frame-by-frame.
Consumed
Director
A parable of fire and grace, hand-scratched on 16mm, frame-by-frame.