Mark Borchardt (born August 20, 1966) is an American independent
filmmaker. He is best known as the subject of the 1999 film American
Movie, which documented three years he spent writing, shooting and
editing his horror short, Coven (1997).Borchardt was born and raised
in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. His mother, Monica, is Swedish. He started
making films at the age of fourteen with a super-8 camera that was
given to him by a guy who lived down the street from him. After
serving three years in the military, he continued his cinematic
endeavors at the local university. In the mid-nineties, he wrote and
produced Halloween radio dramas which were broadcast annually and won
a fellowship from the Milwaukee Art Futures Board.Filmmakers Chris
Smith and Sarah Price began filming Borchardt while he was attempting
to put together funding for his unfinished feature Northwestern. After
the project collapsed, Borchardt decided instead to finish Coven,
which he had started years earlier. After Coven was completed, Smith
and Price compiled their footage into American Movie, which was picked
up by Sony Classics and won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1999 Sundance
Film Festival.Since then Borchardt has been active appearing on
television and in movies. Borchardt has made five appearances on Late
Show with David Letterman, including serving as Letterman's 2000
election correspondent. He made several TV appearances on The Show
with No Name, a show in Austin, TX, between 2000 and 2003. In 2004, he
played himself in a cameo appearance on the television cartoon series
Family Guy, along with friend and American Movie co-star Mike Schank.
He and Mike also have their own series on Zero TV, Mark and Mike and
in, 2006, Mark and Mike hosted a national television special called
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