Mark Schwartzbard, director of photography – studied film at Ithaca College, then moved to New York and spent a decade working as a camera assistant on films including Woody Allen's Hollywood Ending, and Martin Scorsese's The Departed, as well as Little Children, Rent, Hitch, Pollack and, the most fun of all, Borat, which led to work as a camera operator on director Larry Charles' few projects, including Religulous and Bruno.
He also went through a period of working on many of the episodic TV shows filmed in New York, including Ed, Sex and the City, Third Watch, The $treet, Hack, Philly, and the Law & Order franchises. As DP Mark has shot nine narrative feature films (including The Dish and the Spoon, starring Greta Gerwig, and Think of Me starring Lauren Ambrose), three documentary features, many shorts, and the Showtime series La La Land. He divides his time between New York, Los Angeles, and wherever the next job is.
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