ABOUT
Experience & Awards
Mark Bristol is an award-winning writer-director who just Co-wrote, produced and directed his second feature film ACCIDENTAL TEXAN starring Thomas Haden Church, Carrie-Anne Moss, Rudy Pankow, and Bruce Dern. The award-winning film was released through Roadside Attractions. With 95% Audience score on Rotten Tomatoes the film is now streaming on Hulu.
Bristol honed his craft as a storyboard artist for directors including Christopher Nolan, David Fincher, Spike Jonze, Terrence Malick, and Christopher McQuarrie.
Before directing, Bristol was busy designing, storyboarding, and directing previs for all the action scenes on Top Gun Maverick, Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation, Fallout, and Dead Reckoning Part 1 and 2.
On the small screen, Bristol won 3 silver ADDY awards as a commercial director.
He also served as writer-director on the award-winning series Day 5. He also developed and wrote the graphic novel companion to Universal’s The Mummy starring Tom Cruise.
Bristol has been invited numerous times to speak at film festivals and universities on storyboarding, WRiting AND Directing.
He is a member of the Art Directors Guild, and he serves on the SXSW Film Festival Advisory Board.