Bio
Mark Millhone is an award-winning writer, filmmaker, columnist and teacher.
After graduating from Columbia University with an MFA in Film Direction and winning
the Academy Award for Best Student Film, Mark spent more than five years wandering
the vast desert of Hollywood development hell before resurfacing as a screenwriting
professor at NYU Film School and the Dysfunctional-Male-in-Residence at Men's
Health Magazine. His humorous columns for that magazine (and his need to deal
with a very un-humorous year from hell for his family) are what begat his memoir,
The Patron Saint of Used Cars & Second Chances (coming out in hardcover on July 7th).
But, of course, like every other moron who went to film school,
what Mark really wants to do is direct and has several projects in development:
The Other Jennifer (a romantic-comedy based on one of his magazine columns) and
Serenity Falls (his Sisyphusian attempt to re-make Chinatown set in present-day
Dallas, Texas). Cameras roll on his feature film directorial debut Minuteman,
this summer.
Mark lives in New York and has two lovely children and two rather strange-looking dogs.