Cinemarks.net (PRODUCTION COMPANY) is committed to making feature films and developing original television programming that can improve lives by telling stories that focus on diverse social, cultural and political subjects that are both entertaining and provocative and resonate with emotion inspiring new ways of thinking, feeling and acting in a popular audience.
She has worked in a variety of capacities in film production but has focused most of her energy on her own film work. Her films and film installations have been shown in New York, California, Montreal and Berlin.
Her first two shorts, Still Life and Dialogue premiered in the Berlin International Film Festival. Dialogue was included in the Montreal Festival of Films and Videos by Women and was screened at the Knitting Factory in New York.
It was acquired and aired on A&E for a period of one year. Still Life was screened at a Tompkins Square Park Festival in New York and received superlative reviews from Karen Cooper of The Film Forum and AmyTaubin, former film critic of the Village Voice.
Sync was a finalist for consideration for production funds from the American Film Institute’s development grant for dramatic film and along with In the Wake of Illusion are two features in development. Scream, a new psychological thriller drama has recently been completed.
Movies In Development
In the Wake of Illusion
A recently-divorced, New York designer rebounds with a handsome, younger and ambitious Turkish immigrant but is forced to confront more than just cultural differences when the Soviet Union collapses.
Sync
Sync is a surreal psychological drama twisting sisters through time.
The Attack of the 50 ft Bettina
A twenty something graphic artist dreams of breaking free from her agency job by crafting a namesake comic where a woman wields superhuman strength against her adversaries
Plenty of Fish
In ‘Plenty of Fish,’ a woman navigates a quirky dating world, encountering 50 men who unknowingly repeat the same dialogue on their first dates, creating a humorous twist.”
Television Series In Development
The Hidden Scream
©The Scream2023Bettina Marks – An eerie scream from a woman being raped penetrates the Meat market district while busy New Yorkers question their consciences about taking action. (Inspired by the true story of the Kitty Genovese murder in Queens and Edvard Munch’s painting).
Young Men & Chocolate
The Chemical Cure
An investigative television program tentatively entitled, “The Chemical Cure,’ which focuses on how the psychiatric industry (specifically psychopharmacology) identifies and treats, ‘psychiatric’ illness/es