Website Design/Maint.
Master's
Degree, TV & Film Production "Prelude
To Glory: The Decathlon"
Loyola-Marymount University of Los Angeles
Long before film school Mark knew he was destined to a life-long place in the
film business, when he grew up next door to Hollywood's first art director,
the man who designed the sets for Lon Chaney's "Phantom of the Opera," Ben Carre.
But it was finding a trunk full of his grandfather's studio scripts in the attic
that convinced him to go for it as a career.
An IATSE Director of Photography, Mark isn't just a "film guy" or "video guy"
but has maintained an experienced hand in both camps for two decades, and as
the media have evolved, so has his expertise in creating compelling imagery
with film cameras, broadcast video, doc-friendly digital formats, HD and digital
cinema recording systems.
His work as a DP includes eighteen feature films shot on 35mm and Digital. He
regularly shoots documentaries in formats ranging from one-hour to four-hour
broadcast specials; also creative re-enactments, sports films (single camera
style), behind-the-scenes of network TV shows and movies, network promotions,
and national infomercials.
His credits on documentaries are frequently seen on Discovery, History Channel,
A&E, TLC, MSNBC, HBO, Lifetime, Travel Channel, Speed Channel, Court TV, Spike
and PBS, and have won recent awards such as:
Emmy
Nomination ("True Story of Black Hawk Down")
Producer/Director
Platinum Aurora, Best of Show ("Journeys to Remember" & "Behind
Bars")
He frequently directs re-enactments for documentaries. Since 1982 he has co-produced
a number of TV pilots, one-hour documentaries as well as feature films, including:
"Web of Secrecy: YF-23 Declassified"
"Stuntman"
"Culver City: The Reel Hollywood"
"Starforce"
"Die Hard Dracula"
"Deadly Alliance"
