Cameraman, artist, and actor Mark Sawicki began his career as a stop motion hobbyist in Jackson, Michigan. His early work as a teenager led Sawicki to enroll in the USC Cinema program in Los Angeles, where he and his friends struggled to find ways of breaking into the film industry. An early effort of Sawicki and his classmates was the independent feature film The Strangeness (featured in the book Nightmare USA by Stephen Thrower, 2007, Fab Press, and rereleased by codereddvd.com) for which Sawicki was co-producer, visual effects artist, and actor. This film was a terrific introduction into the field and opened the door for Sawicki to work at Roger Corman’s New World Pictures. While at Corman’s, Sawicki experienced the rough-and-tumble ...
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