Mark Forman(III)
- Camera and Electrical Department
Mark Forman is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA
and MFA in Film. In 1984 Mark won an award for cinematography for the
student film "Party Games". In 1988 he produced "Bicycles on Snow",
which aired on the Discovery Channel. In 1994 that film won an award
for the best film at the Interbike Film Festival . In 1991 he developed
and patented the Forman Camera Bicycle a device for action
cinematography. Forrest Whitaker used the bikes to open his HBO film,
Strapped (1993). The Forman Bikes were also used for Sony/Interfilm's,
Ride for Your Life in 1993 with Adam West. Forman did a ride simulator
film for Coca Cola's Olympic City in Atlanta in 1996. Mark began to
research 16:9 wide screen cinema in 1998. At that time he purchased the
first privately owed 16:9 DVCAM from Sony. With that camera he
photographed a DVCAM demo that Sony used at NAB in 1999 and also shot a
project for the National Science Foundation. In 1999 Mark realized that
Video really had the potential to become Cinema especially with the
introduction of HD. He then decided to do something many
cinematographers dream of. "I would build a screening facility out of
the need to see these images in the best possible viewing conditions."
Mark Forman opened the Forman HD screening room in 2000. Since that
time the room has screened for cinematographers including Allen Daviau
ASC, Ellen Kuras ASC, Sean Fairburn SOC and , the director Robert
Altman, as well as many others. The Forman Screening room pre-screened
two Sundance Film Festival winners "Personal Velocity" and "Frozen
River." Mark Forman has done aerial cinematography for Honor Squadrons
International in 2001 and has been involved with a documentary in
progress on the World War 2 Group the Air Apaches. He is also is an
accomplished still photographer with publication of his images in
Digital Cinema Magazine Miilimeter Magazine Digital Content Producer,
American Cinematographer, The Seashore Trolley Museum, The Yankee Air
Museum, EAA Warbirds, Videography, Film and Digital Times, SMPTE
Journaland AirVenture Today. Mark Forman is a member SMPTE, SOC, and a
Charter Member of The Digital Cinema Society. Sony I.C.E. (Independent
Certified Expert) specializing in cameras 2011