Mark Bowes

Owner / Operator at Fluxus Maximus Productions
Director, Editor, Screenwriter and Videographer

Palm Springs, California

Member Since:
January 2017

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About Mark

Independent Screenwriter / Director dividing my time between Denver, CO and Palm Springs, CA. My work 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.

Gender:
Male

Height:
5' 9"

Photos

Promo poster for my feature script - Blame It On The Bossa Nova

New poster for my TV pilot - Life During Wartime

Videos

Get Happy or The Night Judy Garland Started A Riot

Loglines

Life During Wartime Budget: $1M - $5M | Drama ⋄ Fantasy When his life implodes, a recovering alcoholic, HIV+ actor flees to a Palm Springs trailer park inhabited by geriatric Hollywood has-beens, but instead of refuge he finds himself battling homophobia and 80’s AIDS hysteria, threatening his sobriety and very existence.
Fruit Fly 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 Republican dad and set out to prove their haters wrong and live a life of fabulousness.
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, conniving sister, who plots to cut him from the family inheritance and send him back to the sanitarium.
Fairy Tale High Budget: $5M - $10M | Drama ⋄ Independent As the 70's disco era comes to a climax, a sexually-confused teen befriends a gender-ambiguous punk exchange student who encourages him, against his family's staunch Fundamentalist beliefs, to shed all inhibitions and be himself.

Awards

2022 Quarterfinalist - Cinestory TV Retreat
(2022)
2022 Quarterfinalist - Pitch Now Screenwriting Competition (Season 4)
(2022)
2021 Semifinalist - Series Fest Storytellers Initiative
(2021)
2021 Quarterfinalist - WeScreenplay Diverse Voices
(2021)
2021 Quarterfinalist - Emerging Screenwriters Genre Screenplay Competition
(2021)
2021 Finalist - Austin Film Festival Virtual Pitch Competition
(2021)
2021 Script Competition Second Rounder - Austin Film Festival
(2021)
2021 Winner - ISA Virtual Pitch Challenge
(2021)
2020 Official Selection - Stowe Story Labs
(2020)
2020 Quarterfinalist - Diversity Springboard Screenwriting Competition
(2020)
2020 Quarterfinalist - Cinestory TV Retreat Fellowship
(2020)
2020 Fellow Runner-Up - Lighthouse Litfest Advanced Workshop
(2020)
2019 Semifinalist - Writers for Writers Fellowship
(2019)
2017 Gold Winner - Screenplay , International Independent Film Awards
(2017)
2017 Finalist - Roadmap Writers Wise Words Writing Contest
(2017)
2017 Semifinalist - Screencraft Nicaragua's Writers Retreat
(2017)
2017 Quarterfinalist - Screencraft Jamaica Residency Program
(2017)
2016 Quarterfinalist - 3rd Annual Screencraft Screenwriting Fellowship
(2016)