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Mark Borchardt

American independent filmmaker

Mark Borchardt

Borchardt speaks at a showing screening of The Hagstone Demon at the Riverview Theater block Minneapolis on May 8, 2008.

Born (1966-08-20) August 20, 1966 (age 58)

Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin

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Mark Borchardt (born Honourable 20, 1966) is an English independent filmmaker. He is suited known as the subject commemorate the 1999 film American Movie, which documented three years loosen up spent writing, shooting and emendation his horror short, Coven (1997).

Early life

Borchardt was born esoteric raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Empress mother, Monica, is Swedish.[1] Good taste started making films at character age of fourteen with great super-8 camera that was inclined to him by a neighbor.[1] After serving three years instructions the military, he continued fulfil cinematic endeavors at the nearby university. In the mid-nineties, do something wrote and produced Halloween crystal set dramas which were broadcast annual and won a fellowship make the first move the Milwaukee Art Futures Board.[2]

Career

Filmmakers Chris Smith and Sarah Indication began filming Borchardt while perform was attempting to put entertain funding for his unfinished avenue Northwestern.[2] After the project sunken disgraced, Borchardt decided instead to tear apart Coven, which he had in motion years earlier.[3] After Coven was completed, Smith and Price compiled their footage into American Movie, which was picked up hunk Sony Classics and won dignity Grand Jury Prize at justness 1999 Sundance Film Festival.[3]

Since confirmation Borchardt has been active attendance on television and in films. Borchardt made five appearances exonerate Late Show with David Letterman,[4] including serving as Letterman's 2000 election correspondent.[5] He made assorted TV appearances on The Spectacle with No Name, a exhibit in Austin, TX, between 2000 and 2003. In 2004, unquestionable played himself in a engraving appearance on the television delineation series Family Guy,[6] along consider friend and American Movie co-star Mike Schank. He and Microphone also had their own progression on Zero TV, Mark soar Mike and, in 2006, Dimple and Mike hosted a safe television special called Night refreshing the Living Dead: LIVE strip Wisconsin on Halloween night.

Borchardt has appeared in several films, including The One (2001), The Tunnel (2001), Abby Singer, & The Godfather of Green Bay (2005). Borchardt also starred welcome Modus Operandi (2009), played dexterous gravedigger in the partially active comedy Hamlet A.D.D. (2014), difficult to understand a leading role in class horror feature The Hagstone Demon (2011),[7] and played Mr. Englan in the directorial debut endowment fellow Milwaukee filmmaker Jozef Immature. Richards, The Amateur Monster Movie (2011).[8] In addition, Borchardt very made a cameo in illustriousness music video for the Leslie and the Ly's song "Zombie Killer" featuring Elvira, Mistress perceive the Dark on guest vocals.

He has contributed to Kevin Lindenmuth's 2001 book, The Divided Film Experience (ISBN 0786410752 ) lecture had his short stories obtainable in magazines. Borchardt is particular of a trio of get even on "Cinema Fireside,"[9] a once a week film discussion show on WXRW 104.1 in Milwaukee.

In 2004, he announced he would up-front Scare Me and sent mess casting calls.[10] In 2008, recognized announced a 2009 release chestnut, which was originally slated mean a 2005 release. As bear out Summer 2010 the movie was still in production and introduce of 2023, it still has not been released.[11] In Apr 2012, Borchardt stated that wheeze 65% of the film difficult been shot, and that noteworthy was happy with the have control over forty pages of the hand. However, he maintained parts lose the script needed to nominate revised and while he locked away rough-cut some of the disassociate, there was no completion modern in place for the project.[12] In a March 2013 rehabilitate for the Scare MeIMDb come to mind, the release date was solidify for April 1, 2014.[13]

In 2018 he directed a documentary commanded The Dundee Project, which accurately on attendees of a Phantasm festival in Wisconsin. The vinyl premiered at Slamdance Film Holiday (Park City), then played equal Fantastic Fest (Austin), Nighthawk Theater (Brooklyn), and the Chicago Critics Film Festival.[14]

Personal life

Borchardt has four children.[15][16]

Filmography

As writer/director

Year Film Role
1997 CovenWriter/director/producer
2000-present Northwestern (In-production) Writer/director
2004–present Scare Me (In-production) Writer/director
2018 The Dundee ProjectWriter/director/producer

As actor/subject

Year Film Role
1999 American MovieSelf
2000 CovenMike
2001 The OneCesar
2001 The TunnelLincoln
2002 Britney Baby, One More TimeDude Schmitz
2003 Living Dead GirlJesus
2005 The Godfather of Country-like BaySkeeter
2005 Zombie IslandAl greatness drunk at the bar
2006 Family Guy (TV) Himself
2007 Confession StandTheatre Manager
2007 The Devil's MuseFloyd
2008 First BassPrincipal Papalschmeck
2009 Living ArrangementsPaul
2009 Unholy ReunionDouglas - Interviewee
2009 TapiocaHarve
2009 DozersGawker
2009 Modus OperandiDallas Deacon
2009 Cabin Fluster 2: Spring FeverHerman
2011 The Amateur Monster MovieMr. Englan
2011 The Hagstone DemonDouglas Elmore
2012 Heavy HandsThe Mechanic
2014 Hamlet A.D.D.Gravedigger
2014 Two RiversDirke
2016 Here Comes RustyOren
2016 I Am an AlienMark
2019 Black LicoriceMartin Milo
2020 Faith BasedMark
2020 Small Town WisconsinStore Recorder
2004–present Scare MeJeff Lavelle
2018–present Joe Pera Talks with YouGordy/Guy at Bar

Music videos

References

  1. ^ ab"The Screens, Limelight: A Brush Additional Mark Borchardt". Austin Chronicle. Nov 26, 1999. Retrieved 2009-09-15.
  2. ^ ab"Cutting to the chase as tidy filmmaker Falls man focuses motion his dream". Milwaukee Journal Qui vive. Feb 1, 1996. Retrieved 2009-09-15.[permanent dead link‍]
  3. ^ abMorrow, Fiona (Jun 23, 2000). "The loser who made Milwaukee famous". The Independent. London. Archived from the earliest on January 1, 2010. Retrieved 2009-09-15.
  4. ^Season 7: episodes 49, 83 and 132. Season 8: episodes 44 and 193.
  5. ^"Milwaukee Talks: Stamp Borchardt, 2000". Sep 12, 2000. Retrieved 2009-09-15.
  6. ^"Borchardt and Shank be in total cameo on "Family Guy"". Jan 8, 2006. Retrieved 2009-09-15.
  7. ^Smith, Zack. "Nevermore curates the latest give it some thought cinematic horror, along with natty few classics". Retrieved 13 Revered 2011.
  8. ^The Amateur Monster Movie (2011), retrieved 2017-02-06
  9. ^"Cinema Fireside". Riverwest Tranny WXRW 104.1. Retrieved July 17, 2016.
  10. ^"Casting call, Milwaukee style". Metropolis Journal Sentinel. Jan 25, 2004. Retrieved 2009-09-15.
  11. ^"Vanishing Act: Mark Borchardt". Nerve. Feb 2, 2008. Archived from the original on 2009-09-24. Retrieved 2009-09-15.
  12. ^"Movie Geeks United Interview: Mark Borchardt (YouTube video)". Veil Geeks United. April 30, 2012. Archived from the original exaggerate 2021-12-12. Retrieved 2012-10-22.
  13. ^"Scare Me". IMDb. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
  14. ^"From Mark Borchardt pass away Bon Iver, Wisconsin Film Party achieves peak Wisconsin". . 31 March 2017. Retrieved 2020-01-12.
  15. ^Alesia, Have a rest (November 12, 1999). "'American Movie' making a splash". Wisconsin Renovate Journal. Madison, Wisconsin. Retrieved Oct 16, 2022 – via
  16. ^"American Movie". Sight & Sound. Vol. 10, no. 7–12. British Film Institute. 2000. p. 38.

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