Mark Violi

Mark Violi

Actor, Screenwriter and Playwright

Hamilton, New Jersey

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February 2021
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About Mark

Mark Violi has written over ten feature film screenplays with three feature film script options to producers in New York and Los Angeles and two scripts entering development deals. The comedy feature WIFF has been optioned to both Page Four Productions and Clear Pictures Entertainment. The comedy feature MOBBED UP has been in development with Starline Films. True story dramady, FROM BEDSIDE is currently in development.

Mark was recently hired to rewrite the comedy feature PET PROJECT for Pendulum Films. Mark is also co-writer of the feature documentary JOHN HART: PORTRAIT OF A PATRIOT which has completed production in New Jersey. Additionally, Mark has had two stage dramas produced a combined six times.

Mark is available for adaptations and writing assignments. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America and SAG/AFTRA.

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Loglines

  • Christmas 2.0

    Christmas 2.0 Budget: $10M - $30M | Family Comedy Following a Christmas Eve blunder, Santa’s elves orchestrate a high-tech takeover of the North Pole, but when corporate greed and failed technology threaten to ruin Christmas, the elves must unite to retake the holiday, restore Santa’s mojo and prove Christmas Magic is still alive.

  • From Bedside

    From Bedside Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama Comedy When a jaded teacher tutors a teenager stricken with cancer, they forge a unique bedside bond forcing him to reevaluate his capabilities while helping the dying student achieve some extraordinary once-in-a-lifetime goals. Based on the true story.

  • Test Drive

    Test Drive Budget: $5M - $10M | Action Comedy Straight-laced Jim and his brash buddy broker a deal for a free Aston Martin weekend test drive and shift into a high-speed adventure when the car is mistaken for one involved in a Mob drop.

  • Pregnant Pause

    Pregnant Pause Budget: $1M - $5M | Romance Comedy Rebecca is a hard-boiled career woman focused solely on making partner at her firm. When her brazen assistant sets her up with Midtown’s hottest young chef, an unplanned pregnancy threatens her career goals–worse, she may be falling for the father.

  • This Next Year

    This Next Year Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama After surviving a school shooting and now suffering with PTSD, a young guidance counselor takes a new position at a Pennsylvania high school. In crisis herself, she becomes obsessed with a recent student suicide but the truth she uncovers threatens to put more students at risk.

Awards

  • THIS NEXT YEAR Wildsound TV Screenplay Festival- Winner
    (2021)

  • TEST DRVIE Austin Film Festival - Second Rounder
    (2021)

  • FROM BEDSIDE Nicholl Fellowship - Top 20%
    (2017)

  • FROM BEDSIDE Austin Film Festival - Top 15%
    (2016)

  • TEST DRIVE Nicholl Fellowship - Top 20%
    (2015)

  • PREGANAT PAUSE Nicholl Fellowship - Top 20%
    (2014)

  • PREGNANT PAUSE BlueCat Screenplay Competition - Top 10%
    (2013)

  • TEST DRIVE Scriptapalooza - Top 10%
    (2010)

  • WIFF Austin Film Festival - Top 10%
    (2008)

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