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Mark Devendorf

Historia

Mark graduated from U.C.S.C. with his bachelor’s in Film and Television. He worked for Roger Corman’s New Horizon script department and later for the producer of 2010’s 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 M.A. in Film, Television, and New Media at San Diego State University. His thesis film, Setting Sun, a single-take film noir, won the school’s 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 co-wrote, co-directed, and edited the film. Mark currently lives in Portland where he writes, directs, and edits various projects and teaches editing and screenwriting.

Películas

Screenplay

Retrata la relación intensa y fracturada entre un adolescente solitario y una hermosa desconocida.

Editor

Retrata la relación intensa y fracturada entre un adolescente solitario y una hermosa desconocida.

Producer

Retrata la relación intensa y fracturada entre un adolescente solitario y una hermosa desconocida.

Director

Retrata la relación intensa y fracturada entre un adolescente solitario y una hermosa desconocida.

Rise of the Giants

Rise of the Giants

Director

Rise of the Giants follows a group of dedicated and eccentric farmers' race to grow the world's largest pumpkin (2032 pounds!) Along the way the film reveals how the plant changed the course of U.S. history, how farming helps incarcerated addicts with their recovery, and how a community of young growers have rediscovered their farming roots.

Producer's Assistant

El lago Victoria (Arizona) es un lugar que se llena de gente joven durante las vacaciones de primavera. De repente, se producen una serie de temblores submarinos que liberan unos peces prehistóricos antropófagos. Todos deberán unir sus fuerzas para sobrevivir a estas criaturas. Remake del clásico de terror dirigido por Joe Dante

An Inaugural Ride to Freedom

An Inaugural Ride to Freedom

Editor

This heartwarming and at times touching documentary chronicles the preparation, experience, and aftermath of the University of Nebraska at Omaha's Black Studies Department, students, and community persons as they embark upon the inauguration of President Barack Obama. A mixture of cinema verity and interview, this documentary provides an eyewitness accounting of the event through emerging primary stories representative of a broad array of cultural and occupational backgrounds. It is the cinematic documentation of the joy, the laughter, and the tears as 55 passengers board a bus and travel over 2,000 miles for an experience of a lifetime.

Editor

Euripides' Greek tragedy, "The Trojan Women" is played out on the edge of a rocky desolate Mexican border town in this poetic reinterpretation by Director Mauricio Chernovetzky.

Editor

Starved is a short documentary that delves into the dysfunctional relationship most women face with food and their bodies. The film follows five women with varying degrees of disordered eating (anorexia, bulimia, yo-yo dieting, obesity, overall body dissatisfaction), their paths to recovery, and beyond. Experts like Anita Johnston, Mary Taylor and Geneen Roth examine the historic, social, familial and psychological factors of disordered eating and speak about their experiences in the recovery field. Most importantly, Starved reveals the inner landscapes of women's suffering. It provides a mental, emotional, and spiritual lens into this pervasive and devastating issue.

Cinematography

Starved is a short documentary that delves into the dysfunctional relationship most women face with food and their bodies. The film follows five women with varying degrees of disordered eating (anorexia, bulimia, yo-yo dieting, obesity, overall body dissatisfaction), their paths to recovery, and beyond. Experts like Anita Johnston, Mary Taylor and Geneen Roth examine the historic, social, familial and psychological factors of disordered eating and speak about their experiences in the recovery field. Most importantly, Starved reveals the inner landscapes of women's suffering. It provides a mental, emotional, and spiritual lens into this pervasive and devastating issue.

Apart in the World

Apart in the World

Editor

Hoping to find his place in the world, Boris Babaev, an Orthodox Jew from Tajikistan, moves to Poland, where he becomes an accidental hero for young Polish Jews.