Experiencing Interruptions?

Portrait of a Filmmaker

The director returns to film footage that he shot years ago as a film student but never edited until now into a personal expression on being a filmmaker .

  • Project Type:
    Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    2 minutes 35 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    March 16, 2016
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Shooting Format:
    16mm & Super 8mm
  • Aspect Ratio:
    4X3
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Chicago International Film Festival

    March 16, 2016
    French Cultural Services Award, Silver Plaque Award, Illinois Award
Director Biography

Mark Mamalakis is an award winning filmmaker based in Chicago. He holds a BA in Film from Columbia College, Chicago and an MA in Media from the University of Illinois at Chicago where he focused on ethnographic filmmaking. He was also a student in the Anthropological Film class taught by Jean Rouch at Harvard University in 1981.

Mark’s experimental films, Subway and Portrait of a Filmmaker, have received six festival awards and his documentary, The Art of Haiti, received three awards from the Chicago International Film Festival and is included in MOMA’s Circulating Film Library.

Mark received a grant in cinema from the French Ministry of External Relations enabling him to develop projects in France for seven months. He was awarded an NEA Regional Fellowship as well as grants from the Illinois Humanities Council, the Illinois Arts Council and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs. He is currently completing documentaries about the Chicago Stockyards, the Day of the Dead, the Mexican painter Alejandro Romero and a fiction screenplay titled The Labyrinth.

In addition to his filmmaking Mark has worked as location manager/location scout for directors Costa Gavras, Michael Mann, Olivier Assayas, and Steven Soderbergh.

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