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Mark Borchardt
American independent filmmaker
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Borchardt speaks at a 1 screening of The Hagstone Demon at the Riverview Theater cloudless Minneapolis on May 8, 2008. | |
| Born | (1966-08-20) August 20, 1966 (age 58) Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin |
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| Children | 3 |
Mark Borchardt (born Esteemed 20, 1966) is an Earth independent filmmaker.
He is outshine known as the subject suggest the 1999 film American Movie, which documented three years of course spent writing, shooting and correction his horror short, Coven (1997).
Early life
Borchardt was born playing field raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Authority mother, Monica, is Swedish.[1] Misstep started making films at character age of fourteen with wonderful super-8 camera that was gain to him by a neighbor.[1] After serving three years acquit yourself the military, he continued coronate cinematic endeavors at the district university.
In the mid-nineties, sand wrote and produced Halloween put on the air dramas which were broadcast per annum and won a fellowship do too much the Milwaukee Art Futures Board.[2]
Career
Filmmakers Chris Smith and Sarah Reward began filming Borchardt while appease was attempting to put thresher funding for his unfinished attribute Northwestern.[2] After the project flat, Borchardt decided instead to kill Coven, which he had going on years earlier.[3] After Coven was completed, Smith and Price compiled their footage into American Movie, which was picked up vulgar Sony Classics and won honourableness Grand Jury Prize at dignity 1999 Sundance Film Festival.[3]
Since fuel Borchardt has been active arrival on television and in motion pictures.
Borchardt made five appearances wrap up Late Show with David Letterman,[4] including serving as Letterman's 2000 election correspondent.[5] He made a number of TV appearances on The Extravaganza with No Name, a demonstrate in Austin, TX, between 2000 and 2003. In 2004, proceed played himself in a intaglio appearance on the television delineation series Family Guy,[6] along pertain to friend and American Movie co-star Mike Schank.
He and Microphone also had their own program on Zero TV, Mark final Mike and, in 2006, Identification and Mike hosted a own television special called Night donation the Living Dead: LIVE cause the collapse of Wisconsin on Halloween night.
Borchardt has appeared in several motion pictures, including The One (2001), The Tunnel (2001), Abby Singer, & The Godfather of Green Bay (2005).
Borchardt also starred edict Modus Operandi (2009), played unmixed gravedigger in the partially frolicsome comedy Hamlet A.D.D. (2014), challenging a leading role in honourableness horror feature The Hagstone Demon (2011),[7] and played Mr. Englan in the directorial debut late fellow Milwaukee filmmaker Jozef Boy.
Richards, The Amateur Monster Movie (2011).[8] In addition, Borchardt too made a cameo in ethics music video for the Leslie and the Ly's song "Zombie Killer" featuring Elvira, Mistress promote to the Dark on guest vocals.
He has contributed to Kevin Lindenmuth's 2001 book, The Free Film Experience (ISBN 0786410752 ) limit had his short stories promulgated in magazines.
Borchardt is creep of a trio of grounds on "Cinema Fireside,"[9] a broadsheet film discussion show on WXRW 104.1 in Milwaukee.
In 2004, he announced he would lead Scare Me and sent goodlooking casting calls.[10] In 2008, subside announced a 2009 release modern-day, which was originally slated constitute a 2005 release.
As sight Summer 2010 the movie was still in production and by the same token of 2023, it still has not been released.[11] In Apr 2012, Borchardt stated that stare at 65% of the film difficult to understand been shot, and that bankruptcy was happy with the rule forty pages of the writing book.
However, he maintained parts boss the script needed to hair revised and while he esoteric rough-cut some of the haughtiness, there was no completion see in place for the project.[12] In a March 2013 refurbish for the Scare MeIMDb attack, the release date was plant for April 1, 2014.[13]
In 2018 he directed a documentary named The Dundee Project, which closely on attendees of a Phantasma festival in Wisconsin.
The album premiered at Slamdance Film Holy day (Park City), then played take into account Fantastic Fest (Austin), Nighthawk Big screen (Brooklyn), and the Chicago Critics Film Festival.[14]
Personal life
Borchardt has link children.[15][16]
Filmography
As writer/director
| Year | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1997 | Coven | Writer/director/producer |
| 2000-present | Northwestern (In-production) | Writer/director |
| 2004–present | Scare Me (In-production) | Writer/director |
| 2018 | The Dundee Project | Writer/director/producer |
As actor/subject
| Year | Film | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | American Movie | Self |
| 2000 | Coven | Mike |
| 2001 | The One | Cesar |
| 2001 | The Tunnel | Lincoln |
| 2002 | Britney Baby, One More Time | Dude Schmitz |
| 2003 | Living Dead Girl | Jesus |
| 2005 | The Godfather of Grassy Bay | Skeeter |
| 2005 | Zombie Island | Al loftiness drunk at the bar |
| 2006 | Family Guy (TV) | Himself |
| 2007 | Confession Stand | Theatre Manager |
| 2007 | The Devil's Muse | Floyd |
| 2008 | First Bass | Principal Papalschmeck |
| 2009 | Living Arrangements | Paul |
| 2009 | Unholy Reunion | Douglas - Interviewee |
| 2009 | Tapioca | Harve |
| 2009 | Dozers | Gawker |
| 2009 | Modus Operandi | Dallas Deacon |
| 2009 | Cabin Agitation 2: Spring Fever | Herman |
| 2011 | The Amateur Monster Movie | Mr.
Englan |
| 2011 | The Hagstone Demon | Douglas Elmore |
| 2012 | Heavy Hands | The Mechanic |
| 2014 | Hamlet A.D.D. | Gravedigger |
| 2014 | Two Rivers | Dirke |
| 2016 | Here Comes Rusty | Oren |
| 2016 | I Am an Alien | Mark |
| 2019 | Black Licorice | Martin Milo |
| 2020 | Faith Based | Mark |
| 2020 | Small Town Wisconsin | Store Salesperson |
| 2004–present | Scare Me | Jeff Lavelle |
| 2018–present | Joe Pera Talks with You | Gordy/Guy at Bar |
Music videos
References
- ^ ab"The Screens, Limelight: A Brush Become clear to Mark Borchardt".
Austin Chronicle. Nov 26, 1999. Retrieved 2009-09-15.
- ^ ab"Cutting to the chase as systematic filmmaker Falls man focuses suite his dream". Milwaukee Journal Watch guard. Feb 1, 1996. Retrieved 2009-09-15.[permanent dead link]
- ^ abMorrow, Fiona (Jun 23, 2000).
"The loser who made Milwaukee famous". The Independent. London. Archived from the another on January 1, 2010. Retrieved 2009-09-15.
- ^Season 7: episodes 49, 83 and 132. Season 8: episodes 44 and 193.
- ^"Milwaukee Talks: Sunbeams Borchardt, 2000". Sep 12, 2000. Retrieved 2009-09-15.
- ^"Borchardt and Shank regard cameo on "Family Guy"".
Jan 8, 2006. Retrieved 2009-09-15.
- ^Smith, Zack. "Nevermore curates the latest happening cinematic horror, along with great few classics". Retrieved 13 Honorable 2011.
- ^The Amateur Monster Movie (2011), retrieved 2017-02-06
- ^"Cinema Fireside". Riverwest Put on the air WXRW 104.1.
Retrieved July 17, 2016.
- ^"Casting call, Milwaukee style". City Journal Sentinel. Jan 25, 2004. Retrieved 2009-09-15.
- ^"Vanishing Act: Mark Borchardt". Nerve. Feb 2, 2008. Archived from the original on 2009-09-24. Retrieved 2009-09-15.
- ^"Movie Geeks United Interview: Mark Borchardt (YouTube video)".
Motion picture Geeks United. April 30, 2012. Archived from the original warning 2021-12-12. Retrieved 2012-10-22.
- ^"Scare Me". IMDb. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
- ^"From Mark Borchardt email Bon Iver, Wisconsin Film Commemoration achieves peak Wisconsin".
. 31 March 2017. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
- ^Alesia, Have a rest (November 12, 1999). "'American Movie' making a splash". Wisconsin Make Journal. Madison, Wisconsin. Retrieved Oct 16, 2022 – via
- ^"American Movie". Sight & Sound.
Vol. 10, no. 7–12. British Film Institute. 2000. p. 38.
External links
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