NEWS

Honored to be chosen in ScreenCraft's
"Top 10 People All Screenwriters Should Follow
on Twitter"
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MARK'S NEW WORKSHOP:
"So, you want to be a screenwriter? Now What?"
Also available for private group sessions (4 - 6 writers).
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Learn how to build and establish a career as a working screenwriter in Hollywood. 


BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!
Mark's new Webinar:
"A Screenwriter's Checklist:
10 Questions Every
Screenwriter Must Answer to Stay in The Game"
Saturday, June 1, 2013 at 11 AM PDT
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WEBINAR INFO



Mark's archived webinar with The Writers Store
(now archived on-demand and for sale):
"How to Become a Standout Screenwriter:
10 Steps to Empower Your Career"

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Mark's latest interview by Michelle Goode on her great UK based website
Write So Fluid
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BIOGRAPHY: 

Mark Sanderson is a Los Angeles based screenwriter, script consultant, and sometimes actor blessed to be living his childhood dream of making movies with over two-dozen screenplays written in genres ranging from comedy to drama — from his sketch comedy writing and performing with The Amazing Onionheads and writing for MTV, to his eleven screenwriting assignments, television premieres, and worldwide distribution of his emotionally compelling films — the indie WWII feature I’ll Remember April, Lifetime Network's holiday films An Accidental Christmas and Deck the Halls, the stylish indie noir feature Stingers, and action-packed thrillers USS Poseidon: Phantom Below and SyFy Network's Sea Snakes (aka Silent Venom).  Mark's films have premiered on Lifetime, LMN, Fox Family, SyFy, HereTV, NBC Universal, and distributed globally.

Mark’s creative passion for filmmaking began when he was just eleven years old and started making films with his friends. These "Beardless Wonders of Filmmaking" took their craft seriously and created their own studio where they screened the films and even charged admission. Eventually their films premiered at a Los Angeles teen film festival that garnered a featured article in the LA Times.

After graduating from UCLA Film School, Mark’s early screenplays garnered nominations in writing competitions including a semi-finalist nod in the top 3% of all entries in the Academy’s prestigious Nicholl Fellowship, and a top 50 finalist placement in the Paramount Pictures based Chesterfield Writer’s Film Project originally created by Steven Spielberg.

Mark's produced films have been recognized around the world at major festivals including a premiere and opening the Palm Springs Int. Film Festival, and premieres at the Hawaii Int. Film Festival, St. Louis Int. Film Festival, Rainbow Festival, Newport Beach Int. Film Festival, Fort Lauderdale Int. Film Festival, and nominated for the Starboy Award at the Oulu International Children's Film Festival in Finland.

Mark’s long association with Hollywood veterans and award winning filmmakers dates back to his first produced screenplay and has since worked with Producer’s Guild of America nominees Paul Colichman (Academy Award winner Gods & Monsters) and Mark R. Harris (Academy Award winner Crash) — veteran genre directors Brian Trenchard-Smith, George Mendeluk, Fred Olen Ray, and the late Bob Clark — and Academy Award acting nominees Seymour Cassel, the late Pat Morita, Haley Joel Osment, Tom Berenger, and Emmy acting nominees Mark Harmon and James Hong.

               Management: Element Entertainment.  Legal: Loeb & Loeb, LLP