<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica"><span style="font: 28.0px Helvetica">Mark Stevenson </span><span style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"> </span>Director, Filmmaker</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Helvetica"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Helvetica">Biography</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Helvetica"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Mark is a graduate of both Applied Photography and Media Arts at Sheridan College.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">During his time at Sheridan, he learnt the fundamentals of telling a story through the</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">eyes of a lens. With the primary focus of Cinematography, directing and Writing,</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Mark worked on several student films that won awards and nominations. His</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">second year project "Back Hat" was nominated for best screenplay at school.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Upon graduation, Mark focused on working in various types of positions within the</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">industry. This gave him sound knowledge of how films are made from the</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">preproduction to post production.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">After several years of building contacts and work, (Currently camera assisting on</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Come Dine With Me) he has recently decided it is now time to venture off and begin</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">directing his own films. His most recent film, "Day of the Living?" was nominated</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">and won People's Choice for Comedy Short in 2010 at the Hamilton Film Festival. He</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">has also worked on a number of shorts that to him were testing grounds to find his</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">directorial skills and prowess.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">He is now fully committed to generating ideas, writing them into screenplays and</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">fully producing them, with the hopes to gain funding in order to make a dream come</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">into a professional reality.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Helvetica"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Helvetica">FILMOGRAPHY</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Helvetica"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Writer, Director</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">- Broken Hearts (Animated short, Aired on Sun TV and Kingkaboom.com)</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">- Fire Fly (Animated short, Aired on Sun TV and Kingkaboom.com)</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">- Miserable Breakfast (animated short)</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">- Cheating Chess pieces (Animated Short)</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">- In Harm's Way (7 minute live action short)</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">- Day of the Living? (11 minute short)</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">HAMILTON FILM FESTIVAL WINNER, PEOPLE'S CHOICE</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">PLAYING ON, ROGERS ON DEMAND ONLINE</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">SOLD TO THE SUNDANCE CHANNEL (Set to air NOV 2011)</p>