Mark Russell

 Follow please find supplemental information for an Epic MegaGrant application called “The Pitch”.

The Pitch is a short film to be shot entirely on a newly built LED volume in Brooklyn, NY in collaboration with Silverspoon Animation, Gum Studios and 4Wall. The script was written as a way to explore and demonstrate the capabilities of an Epic powered LED volume as a means of virtual production using real life scenarios that I often encounter as a director and VFX supervisor.

You find a little information about me here:

Mark Russell - Director and VFX Supervisor

Mark began his career in film production in Los Angeles, working on groundbreaking films such as Saving Private Ryan, Minority Report, and Hellboy. Since moving to New York, he has supervised the visual effects in independent film projects like The Sleep Dealer, Please Give, Synecdoche, NY and The Europa Report as well as studio films like The Adjustment Bureau and Tower Heist. In the spaces between films, Mark supervised VFX for commercial post houses working on campaigns for Verizon, Gillette, Pepsi, AT&T and many others. Mark was the visual effects producer on Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street and visual effects supervisor on J. C. Chandor’s A Most Violent Year. Last year Mark completed both Triple Frontier for Netflix and Motherless Brooklyn for Warner Bros. Currently, he is in the final stages of post production on Lin Manuel Miranda’s In the Heights, which will be released in June 2021.

When not working on feature film visual effects, Mark directs commercials and short films like this one.

THE PITCH - Here is a link to the script.

LOOK BOOK - This is a link to a look book.