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Mark Stouffer

Mark Stouffer is winner of 75 international awards, including 3 Emmy Awards, 9  Emmy Award Nominations, and a Directors Guild of America, Best Director  
Nomination. Mark’s production background began at age 18 in partnership with  brothers Marty and Marshall. With minimal gear and funds the Stouffer brothers  hit the road, producing Endangered Species of North America, an award-winning  
film that earned its own pavilion at World Expo Spokane where it was viewed by millions. The Stouffer brothers’ high adventures as teens were chronicled in the Warner Brothers $20 million dollar motion picture created and produced by Mark Stouffer entitled Wild America, starring  Jonathan Taylor-Thomas. In that early era, ABC, NBC and PBS Network Specials Mark directed  included The Predators, hosted by Robert Redford, The Man Who Loved Bears, hosted by Henry  Fonda, and 132 episodes of the award-winning television Series, Wild America, hosted by  Marty Stouffer. 

Receiving a Masters Degree in Cinematography from Brooks Institute, Mark moved into mainstream  entertainment, forming a partnership with Jerry Weintraub and the most popular recording artist of  the era, John Denver. With Mark directing, producing and writing, and John Denver performing, the  successful duo produced many of John Denver’s highest rated Specials including John Denver’s Rocky Mountain Reunion, John Denver’s The Higher We Fly, and John Denver’s Music in the Mountains with  guest stars Steve Martin, Itzhak Perlman, and Olivia Newton-John. 
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Mark’s first move into feature motion pictures was writing, producing and directing Man Outside in  1985 starring Robert Logan, Brad Dillman, and Kathleen Quinlan. Originally distributed by U.K.’s  Virgin Group, MGM and Samuel Goldwyn Company, Man Outside aired extensively on  HBO and was an Official Selection of the Florence Film Festival. 

In a move displaying savvy marketing skills in partnership with Michael and Roger King of King  World Productions, Mark inspired the formation of King World Direct, earning $57 million in direct response sales of home-videos he directed and produced. 

In the 1990s, Mark undertook a decade of directing many of National Geographic’s highest rated  Specials including – Braving Alaska hosted by Martin Sheen, earning Mark a DGA Nomination for  Outstanding Directing – Survivors of the Skeleton Coast hosted by Peter Coyote – Tigers  of the Snow, Nominated for 5 Prime Time Emmy Awards, winning one – Pursuit of the Giant  Bluefin – Search for the Submarine I-52, and Secrets of the Wild Panda, winning Mark a  Prime Time Emmy Award for Directing. 

Mark’s recent endeavors include directing the award-winning adventure, Apollo F-1 Expedition in  collaboration with Amazon’s Jeff Bezos – the sci-fi feature, Creature of Darkness starring Devon  Sawa – the comedy feature, Dog Gone starring French Stewart and Kevin Farley, released by  Universal Studios – and the family feature, Midnight Stallion starring Kris Kristofferson, released by  Gaiam-Vivendi. 

Mark has appeared in four interviews for NBC’s Today Show and been featured in articles for Forbes,  Time, Newsweek, People, USA Today and numerous other publications. Based in Santa  Barbara, California, Mark holds a Master’s Degree in Cinematography, and is a member of the  Director’s Guild of America. 

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Represented by: Tessa Shaffer

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