Mark Slutsky
{{Short description|Canadian filmmaker}}
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Mark Slutsky is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter, and video game director from Montreal, Quebec.T'Cha Dunlevy, [https://www.montrealgazette.com/entertainment-life/movies-tv/article39699.html "Montrealers go viral with lesbian Jehovah’s Witness teen love story"]. Montreal Gazette, March 29, 2023. He is best known for the 2022 film You Can Live Forever, which he co-directed and co-wrote with Sarah Watts.{{cite news |last1=Power |first1=Tom |title=Filmmakers Sarah Watts and Mark Slutsky on their new movie You Can Live Forever |url=https://www.cbc.ca/arts/q/sarah-watts-mark-slutsky-q-tom-power-interview-1.6841240 |access-date=April 9, 2025 |work=CBC Arts |date=May 12, 2023}}
Career
Previously a film critic for the Montreal Mirror,[https://thestarphoenix.com/entertainment/critics-brave-wrath-of-well-the-critics "Critics brave wrath of, well, the critics"]. Saskatoon Star-Phoenix, September 17, 2015. he made his debut as a filmmaker as codirector with Seth W. Owen and Daniel Perlmutter of the comedy mockumentary film The Recommendations in 2005.Murray Whyte, "Invoking Hollywood glory on nickel and dime; Trio makes movies that bid to entertain, for pizza money Automatic Vaudeville up to 50 films". Toronto Star, February 9, 2005. The three subsequently collaborated on the screenplay for the 2010 film Peepers, which was directed by Owen.Matthew Hays, [https://playbackonline.ca/2008/12/15/peepers-20081215/ "Quebec comics star in Peepers"]. Playback, December 15, 2008.
He subsequently wrote and directed a number of short films,Brendan Kelly, "Did you hear the one about ...?; Put a non-practising Jew together with a group of Hassidim, and Mark Slutsky finds comedy". Montreal Gazette, June 18, 2011. and cowrote Yung Chang's documentary film The Fruit Hunters,{{cite news |title=The Fruit Hunters: Film Review |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/fruit-hunters-film-review-523295/ |access-date=April 9, 2025 |work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=May 15, 2013}} before collaborating with Watts on You Can Live Forever, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2022.{{cite news |last1=Hipes |first1=Patrick |title='You Can Live Forever' Trailer: First Look At Canadian LGBTQIA+ Drama In Tribeca's Viewpoints Lineup |url=https://deadline.com/video/you-can-live-forever-trailer-first-look-tribeca-festival/ |access-date=April 9, 2025 |work=Deadline Hollywood |date=June 7, 2022}}
Filmography
- The Recommendations - 2005, codirector with Seth W. Owen and Daniel Perlmutter
- Peepers - 2010, cowriter with Seth W. Owen and Daniel Perlmutter
- The Decelerators - 2012, director and writer
- Sorry, Rabbi - 2012, director and writer
- The Fruit Hunters - 2012, cowriter with Yung Chang
- Never Happened - 2015, director and writer
- Final Offer - 2018, director and writer
- You Can Live Forever - 2022, codirector with Sarah Watts
Awards
References
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External Links
- {{IMDb name|1870414}}
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Category:Film directors from Montreal
Category:21st-century Canadian screenwriters
Category:Canadian voice directors
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)
Category:21st-century Canadian Jews
Category:21st-century Canadian male writers
Category:Canadian male screenwriters
Category:Canadian film critics
Category:Jewish Canadian screenwriters
Category:Screenwriters from Quebec