Mark Borchardt

Mark Borchardt is an American independent filmmaker. He is best known as the subject of the 1999 film American Movie The Making of Northwestern, which documented two years he spent writing, shooting and editing his horror short, Coven .

Borchardt was born and raised in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. His mother, Monica, is Swedish. He started making films at the age of fourteen with a super8 camera that was given to him by a guy who lived down the street from him. After serving three years in the military, he continued his cinematic endeavors at the local university. In the midnineties, he wrote and produced Halloween radio dramas which were broadcast annually and won a fellowship from the Milwaukee Art Futures Board.

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