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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Email: mark.christmas@universalorlando.com

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Special Thanks: Jennifer Lopez, Marcella Blum, Lila Marks, Dennis Clancey