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Mark

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About Me

I'm a New Zealand based film maker who has made one feature film called Futile Attraction and a number of short films. My current project is The Twilight Comedy Minute, a series of one minute comedy films - myspace.com/twilightcomedy for more info or watch a couple of them below...
.. Sonia Klax - Suicide on FunnyOrDie.com .... Sonia Klax - Dumped on FunnyOrDie.com ..
Amy's Break is short drama film we made last summer which was a finalist in the Moonlight Shorts Film Competition. We were trying to capture the feeling of New Zealand in the summer and why we choose to live here.
Futile Attraction was largely funded through my website www.makemarksmovie.com where people from around the world made online contributions and got their names in the credits. It is currently screening around the world in festivals and available on dvd from my site.
Kingdom is a comedy short made for the 48 Hours film competition 2006. It had to contain the line of dialogue "That's what I'm talking about", the character "Robin Slade, Eternal Optimist" and the prop "A Mirror". Our genre was randomly selected as Fairy Tale. It was made entirely in 48 hours.


The Adventures of Spectacularman is a comedy short film made for the 48 Hours film competition 2005. It had to contain the character "Bodil DeRezny, Animal Lover", the line "Please don't do that" and the prop "a banana". Our genre was randomly selected as Superhero. It was made entirely in 48 hours and we made it to the finals.
Skin is a very short comedy I made a few years ago. Better seen than described...
I hope to use My Space to profile some of my work and help develop future projects.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Put Robert Fisk and Christopher Hitchens in a room together with a keg of beer and a knife - see what happens.

My Blog

Twilight Comedy Minute licenced for US TV Show

The latest Twilight Comedy Minute is now online.  Sonia Klax - Dumped stars Marion Shortt as Sonia Klax - Professional Mouthpiece who is hired to dump Ian Peters (Russell Pickering) on behalf of ...
Posted by on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:46:00 GMT

Twilight Comedy Minute wins cash prize

Great News!Office Weirdo (http://www.filmaka.com/watchvideo.asp?id=1E77A0DA-970B-4477 -8B39-05516BB7D883), one of the Twilight Comedy Minutes has made it through the first round of the Filmaka Competit...
Posted by on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 14:01:00 GMT

Twilight Comedy Minute

It is with great pleasure that I launch the Twilight Comedy Minute. This is a new series of semi-regular, stand-alone, one-minute comedy shorts which I am making. It's an ongoing project that starte...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 01:07:00 GMT

Funny or Die

Thanks everyone for voting for Pussy Killers on Scenewon.  we made it up to 11th place which was painfully close to winning some money.  almost.  I know that lots of people had difficul...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 19:07:00 GMT

Last Chance To Vote

Our short film Pussy Killers is now #11 in the SceneWon competition.  There is one week left to vote and a few more will push us into the cash prize winning top 10.Thanks for everyone who's alrea...
Posted by on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:10:00 GMT

Futile Attraction has a distributor!

what the hell does exanimate mean anyway?It's been a busy month culminating in the recently completed 48 Hour Film competition. We made a serious horror film called Listen. It was a tough weekend and ...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:33:00 GMT

RIP Kurt Vonnegut

I've just heard the tragic news that Kurt Vonnegut has died.  Yesturday he was the world's greatest living author.  Today the world is a far less interesting place.One of my favourite quotes...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:03:00 GMT

The right to beat your kids bill

New Zealand politicians are currently deciding whether to legally protect children from serious assault by repealing section 59 of the crimes act - the so called anti smacking bill.  Paranoid hys...
Posted by on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:13:00 GMT

eagle vs shark

the trailer for the new kiwi comedy Eagle vs Shark is online at - apple trailers.  it's hillarious.  check it out if you get the chance, i think it'll rock
Posted by on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 19:14:00 GMT

On The Lot

I've submitted myself as a contestant for Steven Spielberg's new reality TV show On The Lot. It's like a cross between The Apprentice, Idol & Project Greenlight where filmmakers fight to the death...
Posted by on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 17:12:00 GMT