Mark Bessenger – Pride Month Interview

1. What inspired you to work in film?

I have always been a movie lover.  Growing up, my parents would take me to the drive-in theater every Friday.  I’d stay up late watching horror movies on television where I’d obsess over the leading men.  The way a movie can effect you…make you laugh, make you shiver, turn you on…was something that intrigued me, and I wanted to be able to do that myself.  Plus, film is art, and it was the only real media that interested me.  At age eight, I discovered my mother’s old Super 8mm camera in the hall closet and using my cousins as actors, made my first film.  The fire was lit, and it became a life-long pursuit.