Mark Schoonmaker Email & Phone Number

Mark is a Filipino-American storyteller. Born in Manila, Philippines, and raised in San Jose, California. Schoonmaker is building his filmography and set out to work with industry professionals as he continues to produce original material. Mark made his feature-length directorial debut, Dual, a black-and-white horror crime thriller starring Garrett Hines and Mercedes Kilmer. Schoonmaker is slated to direct the crime drama thriller Maidstone starring, Kevin Durand (The Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes), Mason Thames (The Black Phone), and Scott Speedman (Underworld, The Strangers) to headline. Schoonmaker also recently directed, Castlemont, a late '90s period drama exploring loss, grief, divorce, and the creative arts. The original story was inspired by his childhood growing up in Northern, California, and the wisdom he gained from Ethan Hawke in 2018. Mark's other latest directorial effort, Gridlock was a noir revenge crime drama.Schoonmaker was originally developing Amaranth, a coming-of-age sci-fi adventure drama with producers, Amy Soto, Ryan Carnes & screenwriter, Tom Huckabee for actor, Bill Paxton (Aliens, Twister). Originally, Schoonmaker had producer John J. Kelly (Deadpool, Warrior) read an initial draft of "Amaranth." Kelly was the first studio producer to give his time to read what Mark developed. Soto and Huckabee were close friends with Paxton to help gain his involvement, unfortunately, Bill's untimely death put the project on hold, and Schoonmaker pursued other creative endeavors. Dread Central announced in May 2019 Schoonmaker was set to direct the mid-90s horror crime thriller, 'Pitch Black Heist'. The film was slated to feature Brendan Fraser (The Mummy), J.J. Nolan, Speedman, Evan Jonigkeit, Stefan Rollins, and Hines. The feature is based on his 8 min student-made short of the same title from 2012. Bryan Singer was the one who gave Schoonmaker the idea to make Pitch Black Heist on a low budget. Schoonmaker has also developed a coming-of-age drama mystery thriller, A Touch of Evil in which he is circling Katherine Waterston and Patrick Wilson to lead the project which will explore alienation, identity, adoption, and bullying; and has sought-after Oscar-nominated producer, Howard Barish.

Listed skills include Film Production, Screenwriting, Directing, Producing, and 15 others.

• Producer

  Cold Moon Productions

  Los Angeles, Ca, Us