MARK CHRISTMAS

FILM WRITING PHOTOGRAPHY

FilmSalvation (2005)

Gangsters and Vengeance (2007)

The Beautiful Woman (2009)

Chasing Red (2015)

Flight of the Living Dead (2007)

Calls (2016)

SALVATION, inspired by Apocalypse

Now, Platoon, and Saving Private Ryan,

was designed to illustrate the stark real-

ity that war is hell. Armed with a twen-

ty-paged screenplay, authentic Viet-

nam-era military clothing, and a cast of

a dozen actors, Salvation was filmed over

a three-week period in the summer of

2005. The film would require a complex

mixture of practical and digital special

effects, utilizing Adobe After Effects to

insert explosions, bullets, and blood to

enhance the most harrowing scenes in

the film. The result would be an exciting

film that attempted to bring to life a spec-

tacular, frightening, and thought-pro-

voking story of one young man against

an entire war — both inside and out.

Salvation

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 Ven-

geance was, like Salvation, an enormous

effects show, utilizing both practical

and digital special effects. Adobe Pre-

miere Pro and Adobe After Effects were

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?

Gangsters and Vengeance

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 vi-

sual story from beginning to end. In-

spired by the films of David Cronenberg

(The Fly) and Francis Ford Coppola

(The Godfather), the look and feel 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

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 sto-

ry — without uttering a single word.

The Beautiful Woman

ADRENALINE is the driving force

during Sanfermines, an annual event

known worldwide as the Running of

the Bulls. Held each July in Pamplona,

Spain — a small town in the Navarre

mountains just south of France — San-

fermines is, at five hundred years old,

one of the world’s most popular sport-

ing events. It is also one of the most dan-

gerous. Chasing Red features interviews

with those intimately involved with the

event, including long-time bull runners,

Matadors, and Spanish government of-

ficials. Shot over the course of six years,

Chasing Red is a breathtaking look at a

controversial, thrilling, and uniquely

old-world event still thriving in our

own very modern world. The produc-

ers of Chasing Red utilized high-quali-

ty Red Epic digital cameras to film the

event from every angles, ensuring an

exciting, pulse-pounding experience.

Chasing Red

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)

Adam Without Eve (short story; 2010)

Spinster (short story; 2009)

Sea of Grass (short story; 2015)

Darklands (short story; 2007)

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MARK CHRISTMAS

Phone: 321-230-7012

Email: mark.christmas@universalorlando.com

@markdchristmas

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