President
tags:
cinematography
• bikes
• still photography aircraft
• major events.
How would you describe your time at Mark Forman Productions?
Graduate of NYU???s Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA and MFA in Film, 1984-1986 Won an award for cinematography for "Party Games".1988 Produced "Bicycles on Snow"on the Discovery Channel. Won an award best film at the Interbike Film Festival in 1994. In 1991 developed and patented the Forman Camera Bicycle a device for action cinematography. Forrest Whitaker used the bikes to open his HBO film, Strapped (1993) and Sony/Interfilm???s, Ride for Your Life (1993) with Adam West. 1996 did a ride simulator film for Coca Cola???s Olympic City in Atlanta. Began to research 16:9 widescreen HD cinema in 1998. Purchased the first privately owed 16:9 DVCAM from Sony. With that camera photographed demo that Sony used at NAB in 1999, shot a project for the National Science Foundation. 1999 realized that Video really had the potential to become Cinema with the introduction of HD. Decided to do something many cinematographers dream of. "I would build a screening facility out of the need to see these images in the best possible viewing conditions" Opened the Forman HD screening room in 2000. Since that time the room has screened for cinematographers including Allen Daviau ASC, Ellen Kuras ASC, Sean Fairburn SOC and Madstone Films, the director Robert Altman, as well as many others. Also has done aerial cinematography for Honor Squadrons International in 2001 (with Sony???s Jeff Cree for NAB) still involved with a documentary in progress on the World War 2 Group the Air Apaches. Founder of the HDTV Production Forum on Yahoo and is an accomplished still photographer with publication of images in Digital Cinema Magazine Millimeter magazine,SMPTE Journal, American Cinematographer, The Yankee Air Museum, and other publications and web sites. I have photographed a number of celebrates and political leaders including Allen Daviau, Robert Altman, James Cameron, Faye Dunaway, Senators Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton, NYC Mayor Bloomberg and NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn and others.... 
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