Mark Anthony Ramitt

Mark Anthony Ramitt is a Canadian freelance drama writer for independent short films and feature films. Originally born in Guyana, South America, after immigrating to Canada in the 1970s as a toddler, Mark was enamored with the creative and artistic sensibilities of the country (hugely influenced by America) and especially taken by the motion picture industry after watching many American films in the local theaters / cinemas. After graduating high school, Mark was accepted into a Toronto film and television production college where he honed his skills as a filmmaker. Especially exceeding in post-production picture editing and producing. Then working consistently in the Toronto independent film industry, starting with assistant film editing experience at the Norman Jewison Canadian Film Centre (working on then current resident, Jamaican born Stephen Williams's first film while then fellow emerging filmmaker, Clement Virgo - another African-Canadian- was in residency at that same time). After his stint at the CFC, he quickly moved on to non union feature film work. In the intervening years after his independent film work in post-production editing, Mark watched and studied many films from these cinematic masters: Welles, Hitchcock, Kubrick, Altman, Polanski, Spielberg, Coppola, Scorsese, Truffaut. Even making time to watch film classics from the 1930s -1950s (Directors John Ford, Frank Capra, Michael Curtiz, Billy Wilder, Victor Fleming, George Stevens, Fred Zinneman). Eventually realizing that the single most important element for any film genre is the script. Within two decades, Mark self educated himself in the art of storytelling - learning the craft, technique and skill required to write professional, industry standard screenplays. To that end, he indulged himself into the fictional written word and sought out and purchased published scripts and screenplays from such modern talented scriptwriters as Rod Serling (whose 96 original scripts for his created landmark anthology TV series, The Twilight Zone, made a profound impact on Mark's writing style and storytelling sensibilities), Charles Beaumont, George Clayton Johnson, Lawrence Kasdan, and Quentin Tarantino. But Mark did not stop at reading scripts from established TV and film writers. Mark directed his first short narrative film, Embodiment (a drama / fantasy) in 2016 from his own original script - his first produced. While participating in the 2017 film festival and film market circuits within North America, Europe and Australia, his first short film was acquired by New York based Hewes Pictures LLC for worldwide distribution (TV broadcast and all media). His next two short fiction narrative films were both directed by him from his own original scripts in 2019 and 2020. Acquired for broadcast on Shorts.TV in the North American market. For 2021 and beyond, Mark continues to develop his dramatic and fantasy fiction writing skills. He has completed two drama / romance / fantasy genre feature length scripts - both based on his 2020 short films, "Replication" and "Date for Cy". His first independent feature film as producer and director is in development.