Mark Bowes

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 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

    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.

  • The Ass of G.A.W.D.

    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 queer punk rock star must choose between desperate solitude or recover his lust for life by forgiving those who hurt him in the past.

  • Blame It On The Bossa Nova (Lower East Side Story)

    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.

  • Fairy Tale High

    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.

  • Pepita

    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.

  • Fruit Fly - Pilot Episode

    Fruit Fly - Pilot Episode Budget: $1M - $5M | Comedy Drama A gender non-conforming, fashion school drop-out rages against a hostile world, until they’re forced to live with their closeted Conservative father and sets out to prove the haters wrong by living a life of fabulousness as a female drag queen.

Awards

  • 2024 - Quarterfinalist - Cinestory TV Fellowship
    (2024)

  • 2024 - Semifinalist - Creative Screenwriting Pilot Unique Voices
    (2024)

  • 2024 - Launchpad Pilot Competition - Top 100
    (2024)

  • 2024 - Page Turner Screenplays - First 15 - Semi-finalist
    (2024)

  • 2024 - Winner - Best TV Pilot - Palm Springs International Screenwriting Awards
    (2024)

  • Coverfly Red List - Top TV Drama for 10 months
    (2024)

  • 2023 - Quarterfinalist - Screencraft Film Fund
    (2023)

  • 2023 - Semi-finalist - Atlanta Film Festival
    (2023)

  • 2023 - Second Round - ISA Fast Track Fellowship
    (2023)

  • 2023 - Winner - Writers X Writers
    (2023)

  • 2023 - Finalist - Stowe Story Labs - Diverse Voices Fellowsip
    (2023)

  • 2023 - Quarterfinalist - Emerging Screenwriters Drama
    (2023)

  • 2023 - Finalist - Filmmatic Drama Screenplay
    (2023)

  • 2023 - Quarterfinalist - Script Pipeline TV Writing
    (2023)

  • 2023 - Semifinalist - Creative Screenwriting Pilot Screenplay
    (2023)

  • 2023 - Coverfly Red List Top 20 TV dramas and top 1%
    (2023)

  • 2023 - Semi-finalist - Big Break Screenwriting Contest
    (2023)

  • 2023 - Quarterfinalist - Shore Scripts 1-Hour TV Pilot
    (2023)

  • 2023 - Top 50 - ISA Fast Track Fellowship
    (2023)

  • 2022 Quarterfinalist - Cinestory TV Retreat
    (2022)

  • 2022 Quarterfinalist - Pitch Now Screenwriting Competition (Season 4)
    (2022)

  • 2022 Second Round - ISA Fast Track Fellowship
    (2022)

  • 2022 Winner - Top 50 - ISA Fast Track Fellowship
    (2022)

  • 2022 Finalist - Santa Barbara Screenplay Awards Diverse Writers Outreach
    (2022)

  • 2022 Genre Winner - ISA Fast Track Fellowship
    (2022)

  • 2023 Quarterfinalist - Screencraft TV Pilot Competition
    (2022)

  • 2023 Quarterfinalist - Table Read My Screenplay - Park City
    (2022)

  • 2022 - Emerging Screenwriters Genre Screenplay
    (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)

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