Marshall Peterson is a director, screenwriter and editor known for
Four Episodes from 1984 (1985)
and the upcoming
The Heisenberg Effect.
Peterson decided to become a filmmaker when he saw Stanley Kubrick's
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
as a ten-year old in 1968. The viewing coincided with his first
recorded migraine headache - after watching the star-gate sequence, he
threw up seven times in the theatre's parking lot.
Thinking that the movie was entirely responsible for his condition,
Peterson decided that he wanted to wield the power to inflict similar
misery upon others. He began writing and filming his own movie stories
as a high school student: in super-8, then 16mm, then 35mm, eventually
earning a master's degree in writing and directing from the NYU
Graduate Film Institute. His Masters thesis won a Louis B. Mayer
Foundation Award, the Eastman Cinematography Prize, and "Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy Film" at the Southern Shorts Awards.
Peterson then founded Techne Films, eventually creating a
self-contained studio and post-production facility. He has written
several feature screenplays and episodic TV scripts, and worked as a
director, editor and producer on independent projects as well as nearly
200 TV commercials, documentaries and sponsored films. Peterson has won
more than forty festival and competition awards for his work.