Mark Bowes
Owner / Operator at Fluxus Maximus Productions
Director, Editor, Screenwriter and Videographer
Palm Springs, California
January 2017
4 days ago
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About Mark
Independent Screenwriter / Director dividing his time between Denver, CO and Palm Springs, CA. Mark's writing focuses on the struggles and impact of the LGBTQI+ community. "I feel representation is not enough. Inclusivity is not enough. LGBTQI+ stories span centuries and we have just started to explore the breadth of this history. I hope to bring a few of these tales to light. The queer community aren't merely supporting characters. The time has come for our stories to take center stage."
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Life During Wartime - Pilot Episode Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama ⋄ Comedy Rejected by friends, his career in shambles, an alcoholic, gay actor seeks refuge in a Palm Springs trailer park inhabited by Hollywood has-beens, where he struggles with sobriety, HIV, caring for his mentally declining mother, while battling 80’s AIDS hysteria.
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Blame It On The Bossa Nova (Lower East Side Story) Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama ⋄ Independent After undergoing electroshock therapy, a closeted, emotionally-fragile playwright moves to Manhattan's beatnik-inhabited Lower East Side to rebuild his life, only to be undermined by his social-climbing, vindictive sister, who plots to cut him from the family inheritance and send him back to the sanitarium.
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Fairy Tale High Budget: $5M - $10M | Drama ⋄ Independent As the 70's disco era comes to an end, a sexually-confused teen befriends a gender-ambiguous punk exchange student who encourages him, against his family's strict Fundamentalist beliefs, to shed all inhibitions and become himself.
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Fruit Fly - Pilot Episode Budget: $1M - $5M | Comedy ⋄ Drama A gender non-conforming, fashion school drop-out rages against an unaccepting world, until they’re forced to live with their closeted Conservative father and set out to prove the haters wrong and live a life of ultimate fabulousness as a female drag queen.
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Pepita Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama ⋄ Comedy With bankruptcy looming, a single mom Dreamer enlists the help of her trans-masculine goth teen and their band of queer renegades to create the ultimate taco and save the family's failing food truck.
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The Ass of G.A.W.D. Budget: $10M - $30M | Drama ⋄ Comedy When he suffers a humiliating injury on live television, a reclusive washed-up punk rock star must choose between a future of desperate isolation or rediscover his lust for life by forgiving those who hurt him in the past.
Awards
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2024 - Quarterfinalist - Cinestory TV Fellowship
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2024 - Semifinalist - Creative Screenwriting Pilot Unique Voices
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2024 - Launchpad Pilot Competition - Top 100
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2024 - Page Turner Screenplays - First 15 - Semi-finalist
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2023 - Quarterfinalist - Screencraft Film Fund
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2023 - Semi-finalist - Atlanta Film Festival
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2023 - Second Round - ISA Fast Track Fellowship
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2023 - Winner - Writers X Writers
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2023 - Finalist - Stowe Story Labs - Diverse Voices Fellowsip
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2023 - Quarterfinalist - Emerging Screenwriters Drama
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2023 - Finalist - Filmmatic Drama Screenplay
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2023 - Quarterfinalist - Script Pipeline TV Writing
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2023 - Semifinalist - Creative Screenwriting Pilot Screenplay
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2023 - Coverfly Red List Top 20 TV dramas and top 1%
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2023 - Semi-finalist - Big Break Screenwriting Contest
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2023 - Quarterfinalist - Shore Scripts 1-Hour TV Pilot
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2023 - Top 50 - ISA Fast Track Fellowship
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2022 Quarterfinalist - Cinestory TV Retreat
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2022 Quarterfinalist - Pitch Now Screenwriting Competition (Season 4)
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2022 Second Round - ISA Fast Track Fellowship
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2022 Winner - Top 50 - ISA Fast Track Fellowship
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2022 Finalist - Santa Barbara Screenplay Awards Diverse Writers Outreach
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2022 Genre Winner - ISA Fast Track Fellowship
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2023 Quarterfinalist - Screencraft TV Pilot Competition
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2023 Quarterfinalist - Table Read My Screenplay - Park City
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2022 - Emerging Screenwriters Genre Screenplay
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2021 Semifinalist - Series Fest Storytellers Initiative
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2021 Quarterfinalist - WeScreenplay Diverse Voices
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2021 Quarterfinalist - Emerging Screenwriters Genre Screenplay Competition
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2021 Finalist - Austin Film Festival Virtual Pitch Competition
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2021 Script Competition Second Rounder - Austin Film Festival
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2021 Winner - ISA Virtual Pitch Challenge
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2020 Official Selection - Stowe Story Labs
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2020 Quarterfinalist - Diversity Springboard Screenwriting Competition
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2020 Quarterfinalist - Cinestory TV Retreat Fellowship
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2020 Fellow Runner-Up - Lighthouse Litfest Advanced Workshop
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2019 Semifinalist - Writers for Writers Fellowship
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2017 Gold Winner - Screenplay , International Independent Film Awards
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2017 Finalist - Roadmap Writers Wise Words Writing Contest
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2017 Semifinalist - Screencraft Nicaragua's Writers Retreat
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2017 Quarterfinalist - Screencraft Jamaica Residency Program
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2016 Quarterfinalist - 3rd Annual Screencraft Screenwriting Fellowship
(2016)
Education
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Lighthouse Writers Workshop
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Colorado Film School
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School of the Art Institute of Chicago
(1993-1995) -
San Francisco State University
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The Art Institute of Colorado
(1980-1981)
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