If I Were a Filmmaker

Running time: 60'42"

Production: ES 2016

The film opens with an absorbing shot of an old, white film projector being consumed by flames. Mark John Ostrowski’s picture tells the story of an old filmmaker’s daughter, who faces a very serious dilemma: what to do with the father’s legacy? The young woman has to know, however, that only a radical creative act will make her the true heir to the unexpected wealth. Mark John Ostrowski made a feature-length documentary film with deep, metacinematic reflection, offering insight into the quandaries of being a filmmaker.

Authors:

  • Mark John Ostrowski

    Born in 1971, Mark Ostrowski began his career as a writer and photographer. He made his first foray into cinema as the writer, photographer and producer of the autobiographical short film “Festuki” (2011), which won the Dia D’Asturies Award for Best Short Film at the Gijon International Film Festival and was voted among Spain’s best 99 short films of that year by Fotogramas magazine. Since then, he has gone on to direct “Évora,” the autobiographical documentary “Home Movie,” which won Best Expat Feature Film at the 1st Korea Expat and Indie Film Festival, and the multi-award-winning avant-garde documentary “Sixty Spanish Cigarettes.”

    If I Were a Filmmaker (2016)
    Sixty Spanish Cigarettes (2015)
    Home Movie (2014)
    Évora (2012)
    Festuki (2011)
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