Mark Anders(I)
- Writer
- Director
- Producer
An award-winning writer, Mark Anders pens screenplays and narration for feature films, documentaries, television, and short films. His documentary film writing has garnered dozens of awards including Best Film at Banff Mountain Film Festival for Chasing Niagara, Best Film at X-Dance Film Festival for Congo: The Grand Inga Project, and Best of the Fest at the Bentonville Film Festival for Blood Road. He is also often tapped by directors and production houses to assist with storytelling, creative direction, and writing on a wide range of film projects.
Anders began his career as a journalist. Over the past 20 years, he's written hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles for dozens of major media outlets such as Men's Journal, The Wall Street Journal, ESPN, Outside, and Popular Science. He was also the ghostwriter of the highly lauded book Wine to Water (Penguin, 2012), the memoir of an accidental humanitarian in Darfur.
His first foray into film writing came by happenstance in 2011 while on assignment for National Geographic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. After spending a month on the Congo River covering a historic whitewater expedition alongside a film crew, Anders was invited to help craft the documentary Congo: The Grand Inga Project. That film went on to win a handful of festival awards--and Anders was hooked. While he still occasionally contributes to magazines, Anders' primary focus has shifted to film writing.
Anders began his career as a journalist. Over the past 20 years, he's written hundreds of magazine and newspaper articles for dozens of major media outlets such as Men's Journal, The Wall Street Journal, ESPN, Outside, and Popular Science. He was also the ghostwriter of the highly lauded book Wine to Water (Penguin, 2012), the memoir of an accidental humanitarian in Darfur.
His first foray into film writing came by happenstance in 2011 while on assignment for National Geographic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. After spending a month on the Congo River covering a historic whitewater expedition alongside a film crew, Anders was invited to help craft the documentary Congo: The Grand Inga Project. That film went on to win a handful of festival awards--and Anders was hooked. While he still occasionally contributes to magazines, Anders' primary focus has shifted to film writing.
