A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Alias:
Mark A. Roberts
Mark Roberts is an accomplished Producer and show-runner, who has began his career in Hollywood as a Universal Tour Guide. His experience consists of over 20 years in television, film and digital media. Mark launched Roberts David Films with the producer/director Lorena David and produced over a dozen films including The Cover Up with Gabriel Mann and Eliza Dushku, Danika with Marisa Tomei and Poor White Trash. Prior to that, Roberts built a sought after casting company for television and film series, specials and live events. At ITV Studios America, Roberts was developing and show running unscripted series and pilots, which resulted in series sales of My Ride Rules for Speed Channel and Ghostly Lovers for Travel Channel. In partnership with 3 Arts Entertainment, Roberts created Tequila Kings, a workplace doc series sold to NUVOtv. Most recently, Roberts was recruited to add his creative touch as Executive Producer and show-runner of Mexico's Next Top Model in its fifth season on Sony's premiere international channels. The series was produced in Mexico City and Los Angeles under Roberts' bilingual leadership. He also produced Water and Power, a critically acclaimed film he developed from a Mark Taper Forum theatrical production, through a Sundance fellowship with creator/director Richard Montoya of the legendary comedy troupe Culture Clash. A Sundance alumni, Roberts was also responsible for Strangers With Candy which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
Co-Producer:
1997 Plump Fiction
Executive Producer:
1997 Plump Fiction
2016 Maudie
2020 The Assistant
2021 Holiday in Santa Fe
2021 John and the Hole
Producer:
1997 Plump Fiction
2000 Poor White Trash
2003 Impressions of Dune
2005 Extreme Dating
2006 Danika
2006 Strangers with Candy
2008 The Coverup
2016 Maudie
2020 The Assistant
2021 Holiday in Santa Fe
2021 John and the Hole
2022 Steppin' into the Holiday
???? Batso and the Wall
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.