Mark Alexandre Fortin (born August 11, 1978) is a Canadian screenwriter and producer. In tandem with
Joshua John Miller, he has written the screenplay for the 2015 horror comedy ''
The Final Girls'', and the pilot of the
USA Network drama series ''
Queen of the South''.
Personal life
Fortin was born in
Montreal, Quebec, and raised in
Oakville, Ontario. He is an alumnus of
Emerson College
Emerson College is a private college with its main campus in Boston, Massachusetts. It also maintains campuses in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California and Well, Limburg, Netherlands ( Kasteel Well). Founded in 1880 by Charles Wesley Emerson as a ...
, from which he received his
Bachelor of Fine Arts
A Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) is a standard undergraduate degree for students for pursuing a professional education in the visual, fine or performing arts. It is also called Bachelor of Visual Arts (BVA) in some cases.
Background
The Bachelor ...
in 2000. He graduated with a
Master of Fine Arts
A Master of Fine Arts (MFA or M.F.A.)
is a terminal degree in fine arts, including visual arts, creative writing, graphic design, photography, filmmaking, dance, theatre, other performing arts and in some cases, theatre management or arts admini ...
from the
American Repertory Theater /
Moscow Art Theatre
The Moscow Art Theatre (or MAT; russian: Московский Художественный академический театр (МХАТ), ''Moskovskiy Hudojestvenny Akademicheskiy Teatr'' (МHАТ)) was a theatre company in Moscow. It was f ...
Institute for Advanced Theater Training
The American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theatre (ART/МХАТ) Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University was founded in 1987 as a training ground for the new American Theater by the Robert Brustein and the American Repertory ...
at
Harvard University. He is gay, and as of 2013 is in a relationship with fellow screenwriter
Joshua John Miller.
Career
Fortin frequently co-writes with
Joshua John Miller. Their first collaboration was on the short film ''Dawn'', which was directed by actress
Rose McGowan. The short premiered at the
2014 Sundance Film Festival
The 2014 Sundance Film Festival took place from January 16, 2014 until January 26, 2014 in Park City, Utah, United States, with screenings in Salt Lake City, Ogden, and Sundance Resort in Utah. The festival opened with ''Whiplash'' directed by Da ...
. The two then wrote and executive produced the horror comedy film ''
The Final Girls'', which was directed by
Todd Strauss-Schulson and stars
Taissa Farmiga and
Malin Åkerman. The film had its world premiere at
South by Southwest
South by Southwest, abbreviated as SXSW and colloquially referred to as South By, is an annual conglomeration of parallel film, interactive media, and music festivals and Convention (meeting), conferences organized jointly that take place in m ...
on March 13, 2015, and was given a
limited release
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Limited theatrical release is a film distribution strategy of releasing a new film in a few theaters across a country, typically art house theaters in major metropolitan markets. Since 1994, a limited theatrical release in the Unite ...
in the United States on October 9, 2015.
Fortin and Miller wrote the pilot of the
USA Network drama series ''
Queen of the South'', which premiered on June 23, 2016, and for which they also serve as executive producers.
Filmography
* ''Dawn'' (2014; short film)
* ''
The Final Girls'' (2015; also executive producer)
* ''
Queen of the South'' (2016–2021; also executive producer)
* ''
The Exorcism'' (2024)
References
External links
*
1978 births
Living people
21st-century Canadian male writers
21st-century Canadian screenwriters
Canadian gay writers
Canadian male screenwriters
Canadian male television writers
Canadian television writers
Emerson College alumni
Institute for Advanced Theater Training, Harvard University alumni
Canadian LGBT screenwriters
People from Oakville, Ontario
Screenwriters from Ontario
Screenwriters from Quebec
Writers from Montreal
Gay screenwriters
21st-century Canadian LGBT people
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