Mark Christopher | |
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Born | Fort Dodge, Iowa, United States | July 8, 1963
Occupation(s) | Film director, screenwriter |
Mark Christopher (born July 8, 1963, in Fort Dodge, Iowa) is a screenwriter and director most known for directing 54 (1998).[1]
Within the film community, he is better known for the success of the director's cut of the film that premiered at the 2015 Berlin International Film Festival.[2] With over 30 minutes of re-shoots cut out of the 1998 version, and over 40 minutes re-instated, the film was universally lauded by critics and hailed as a "jubilant resurrection" and "a lost gay classic."[3][4] The story of the films destruction and resurrection was featured on New York magazine's Vulture.com website.[5] and The Guardian[6] and Elvis Mitchell's interview with Mark Christopher on KCRW's The Treatment.[7]
Christopher also directed three short films, all of them theatrically distributed: The Dead Boys Club (1992), an influential short of the New Queer Cinema wave as cited by B. Ruby Rich in her Sight & Sound article that defined the genre; Alkali, Iowa (1995), winner of the Teddy at the Berlin International Film Festival (1996); and Heartland, Strand Releasing (2007). He is also known for his television writing and creation of musical programming, including Real Life: The Musical that premiered on OWN in 2012.[8] [9]
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