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MARK CHRISTMAS
FILM WRITING GRAPHIC DESIGN PHOTOGRAPHY
FilmSalvation (2005)
Gangsters and Vengeance (2007)
The Beautiful Woman (2009)
Chasing Red (2013)
Flight of the Living Dead (2007)
Calls (2015)
SALVATION was a year-long labor of
love. The film, inspired by the likes of
Apocalypse Now, Platoon, and Saving
Private Ryan, was meant to illustrate
the stark reality that war is hell. Armed
with a twenty-paged screenplay, authen-
tic Vietnam-era military drab, and a cast
of a dozen actors, Salvation was filmed
over a two-week period in the summer
of 2005. The film would require a com-
plex mixture of practical and digital spe-
cial effects, utilizing Adobe After Effects
to insert realistic explosions, bullets,
and blood to enhance the most harrow-
ing scenes in the film. The result would
be a visually stunning film that brought
to life a spectacular, frightening, and
thought-provoking story of one man
against an entire war, both inside and out.
GANGSTERS AND VENGEANCE is a
love letter to the films of Martin Scorsese
and Quentin Tarantino. Tense and dark,
Gangsters and Vengeance is set in one
room with a cast of five actors. The story
begins with an ordinary poker game on
an ordinary night, but as the whiskey
bottles empty, tempers flare and guns
are drawn. Shot in stunning black and
white, Gangsters and Vengeance was,
like Salvation, an enormous effects show,
utilizing both practical and digital spe-
cial effects. Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe
After Effects, and Pinnacle Pro were all
used to recreate an era when gangsters
ruled and gunshots rang out in the
night. Sex. Money. Murder. Who knew
playing poker could be so much fun?
FILM is a visual medium and The Beau-
tiful Woman is a testament to that. The
screenplay was written without any
dialogue and was intended to tell a
story visually from beginning to end.
Inspired by the films of David Cronen-
berg (The Fly) and Francis Ford Cop-
pola (The Godfather) the visual design
of The Beautiful Woman was a marked
change from Salvation and Gangsters
and Vegeance. Although the film did
not rely on visual effects to enhance
the story, The Beautiful Woman was a
deeply complex production, requiring
two weeks to shoot, and over 100 hours
of editing, utilizing Adobe Premiere
Pro. Ultimately, the film succeeded
in its goal of telling a moving, timely
story without uttering a single word.
ADRENALINE is the driving force
during Sanfermines, an event also
known as the Running of the Bulls.
Held each July in Pamplona, Spain, a
small town in the Navarre mountains
just south of France, Sanfermines is,
at five hundred years old, one of the
world’s most popular sporting events. It
is also one of the most dangerous. Chas-
ing Red features interviews with those
intimately involved with the event,
including long-time bull runners, Mat-
adors, and Spanish officials. Shot over
the course of six years, Chasing Red is
a breathtaking look at a controversial,
thrilling, and old-world event still alive
in our modern world. The producers
of Chasing Red utilized high-quality
Red Epic digital cameras to film the
event from every angles, ensuring an
exciting, pulse-pounding experience.
Writing
Web (screenplay; 2013)
Ultimate Sins (screenplay; 2012)
White Line Fever (screenplay; 2014)
Intersections (screenplay; 2013) Calls (screenplay; 2015)
The Atoll (screenplay; 2014)
Another Way (screenplay; 2015)
Darkness Lives (screenplay; 2008)
Machines (short story; 2008)
Spinster (short story; 2009)
The Parasite Diet (short story; 2009)
Darklands (short story; 2007)
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MARK CHRISTMAS
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Special Thanks: Jennifer Lopez, Marcella Blum, Lila Marks, Dennis Clancey