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This week’s Eye Candy: Mark Palansky

In a long career filmmaking career those behind the camera often make the leap onto other filmmaking platforms such as short films, video work, long form commercials, etc. Whether they are a newcomer or seasoned veteran, every Saturday we feature a filmmaker with an accompanying sample of their work. This week IONCINEMA.com’s Eye Candy personality of the week is

In a long career filmmaking career those behind the camera often make the leap onto other filmmaking platforms such as short films, video work, long form commercials, etc. Whether they are a newcomer or seasoned veteran, every Saturday we feature a filmmaker with an accompanying sample of their work. This week IONCINEMA.com’s Eye Candy personality of the week is …

Mark Palansky might not be a household name, but the majority of the films he worked on were titan film productions. He was a second unit director for The Island and The Amityville Horror and did some Super 8 footage for another Michael Bay’s Pearl Harbor. Featured at this year’s TIFF, Mark Palansky’s directorial debut just got picked up by IFC Films. Penelope tells the story about a young woman who must break a family curse and find true love. James McAvoy will play the title character’s love interest, O’Hara and Grant her parents. Dinklage plays a photographer obsessed with photographing the title character, who’s been cursed with the face of a pig. His first film was a 2001 short film called The Same starring Josh Hartnett. Click here and scroll down the page to watch the short.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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