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Actor: Coven. Mark Borchardt was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He started making films at the age of fourteen with a super-8 camera that he bought from a garage sale for $40. After serving three years in the military he continued his cinematic endeavors at the local university.
Filmed between September 1995 and August 1997, [3] American Movie documents the making of Coven, an independent short horror film directed by Wisconsin-based filmmaker Mark Borchardt. Produced for the purpose of raising capital for Northwestern, a feature film Borchardt intends to make, Coven suffers from numerous setbacks, including poor ...
Oct 14, 2022 · American Movie argues that its subject has a raw but very real gift for crafting memorable images and striking compositions but his real gift is being Mark Borchardt. In that, he is a goddamn intuitive genius, a natural.
Chris Smith's 1999 film followed low-budget filmmaker Mark Borchardt for a year of travails that somehow emerged as comedic. But did the laughs came from sympathy, exploitation or a complex collaboration between director and subject?
Aug 22, 2017 · Portrayed as a struggling dreamer in cult film American Movie, director Mark Borchardt has made a madcap documentary of his own about UFO hunters. Inside the world of film’s most staunchly independent director | Huck
In this cult-favorite documentary, Mark Borchardt, an aspiring filmmaker from a working-class Wisconsin background, is set on finishing his low-budget horror movie, despite a barrage of...
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Jul 17, 2002 · Chris Smith's 1999 documentary American Movie introduced the world to tenacious Milwaukee filmmaker Mark Borchardt, an irrepressible, magnetic outsider hell-bent on finishing his forever-in-the ...