Mark Slutsky is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter, and video game director from

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. He is best known for the 2022 film '' You Can Live Forever'', which he co-directed and co-wrote with Sarah Watts.

Career

Previously a film critic for the ''

Montreal Mirror ''Montreal Mirror'' or just ''Mirror'' was a free English language alternative newsweekly based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada which was distributed every Thursday. It had a circulation of 70,000 and reached a quarter of a million readers per week. ...

'', he made his debut as a filmmaker as codirector with Seth W. Owen and Daniel Perlmutter of the comedy mockumentary film ''The Recommendations'' in 2005. The three subsequently collaborated on the screenplay for the 2010 film '' Peepers'', which was directed by Owen. He subsequently wrote and directed a number of short films, and cowrote

Yung Chang Yung Chang is a Chinese Canadian film director and was part of the collective member directors of Canadian film production firm EyeSteelFilm. Chang is a graduate of Concordia University's Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema in Montreal (BFA 99), the ...

's documentary film ''

The Fruit Hunters ''The Fruit Hunters'' is a 2012 feature documentary film about exotic fruit cultivators and preservationists. It is directed by Yung Chang and co-written by Chang and Mark Slutsky, and inspired by Adam Leith Gollner's 2008 book of the same nam ...

'', before collaborating with Watts on ''You Can Live Forever'', which premiered at the

Tribeca Film Festival The Tribeca Festival is an annual film festival organized by Tribeca Enterprises. It takes place each spring in New York City, showcasing a diverse selection of film, episodic, talks, music, games, art, and immersive programming. The festival ...

in 2022.

Filmography

*''The Recommendations'' - 2005, codirector with Seth W. Owen and Daniel Perlmutter *'' Peepers'' - 2010, cowriter with Seth W. Owen and Daniel Perlmutter *''The Decelerators'' - 2012, director and writer *''Sorry, Rabbi'' - 2012, director and writer *''

'' - 2012, cowriter with

*''Never Happened'' - 2015, director and writer *''Final Offer'' - 2018, director and writer *'' You Can Live Forever'' - 2022, codirector with Sarah Watts

Awards

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