Mark graduated from UCSC with his bachelors in Film and Television He worked for Roger Cormans New Horizon script department and later for the producer of 2010s Piranha 3D directed by Alexandre Aja Mark is also a sketch comic working with companies like the Groundlings and ACME Comedy Theatre He has made dozens of award winning films and documentaries including Manumission Starved and Cassandra which was nominated for a student Academy Award and An Inaugural Ride to Freedom which won an Emmy Award Mark wrote and directed his first feature Negative Creeps before he received his MA in Film Television and New Media at San Diego State University His thesis film Setting Sun a singletake film noir won the schools Best Director award Years ago Mark began writing Styria an adaptation from a novella from the 1800s In the true spirit of independent filmmaking he cowrote codirected and edited the film Mark currently lives in Portland where he writes directs and edits various projects and teaches editing and screenwriting
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