Talent Guide

Mark Columbus

  • Discipline:Director
  • Program Year:Project Involve 2015

Bio

Mark Columbus is a Student Academy Award’s finalist for making Battle of the Jazz Guitarist. His works have played at the 2014 Telluride Film Festival, International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA), Rooftop Summer Series, Palm Springs Shortsfest, and Vimeo Staff Picks.
He directed Guests starring Matthew Modine (Full Metal Jacket) and Rico Rodriguez (Modern Family) as part of the feature film Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards produced by James Franco.
Under the guidance of Sundance Lab Artistic Director Gyula Gazdag, he developed a half-hour comedy TV pilot called Los Angeles: a story about two suburban teenagers who decide to start their own suburban gang.
Before directing, Mark was an editorial assistant for The Onion newspaper and assistant at The Weinstein Company.
He received his MFA in Directing in 2014 from the UCLA School of Film and Television. He is currently a 2015 NBC Directing Fellowship nominee and 2015 Film Independent Project Involve Fellow.

Current Project

Rebel Canadian

Logline

Idiot. Immigrant. Pervert. Prodigy. Sexist. Activist. Legalize LA. Legalize GAY. The story of American Apparel CEO Dov Charney: from his crazy, colorful childhood to the current fight for his company he built from the ground up.