Mark Emery(I)
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Additional Crew
Mark is an independent filmmaker who grew up in central Florida in the
sixties and early seventies. He worked early on wrestling alligators
and milking rattlesnakes for a living at Ross Allen's Reptile Institute
at Silvers Springs. Emery later worked for a time with underwater
filmmaker Jordan Klein Jr and his father. After guiding fly fishermen
in Alaska for a summer. The Klein's gave him a Bolex movie camera for
his next Alaska summer and he began shooting film. Mark also began
writing soundtrack for the Klein's about the same time and in 1986 Mark
and Tracy Collins scored one of the first large budget shark shows for
the Discovery Channel. Collins and Emery have as of 2008 scored over
200 television shows and commercials. As for films Mark is still
working for National Geographic as a contract shooter, spending summers
in Alaska with his wife in a small town 300 air miles from the nearest
connecting road in King Salmon Alaska. From October until May, Emery is
in Florida either working on One More Cast, writing soundtracks for
television shows or traveling to whatever location is next. He has
worked extensively underwater with alligators likely more than any
other filmmaker as the water near his home is clear and easy to film
in. He was recently featured filming gators in a BBC film entitled
Florida's Wild Side. He has made many films on different species from
crocodiles, fish, Grizzly bears to manatees. He has shot in Cuba,
Venezuela, Mexico, Belize, Costa Rica and Argentina as well as several
countries in Africa. His most recent work on a large species involved
sixty days of shooting on moose in Alaska fro National Geographic. He
is currently finishing shooting a music video on The Garneau band for
their song Keep the Dream Alive. Produced and recorded by multiple
Grammy winner Bruce Swedien. You can check Bruce's face book for the
youtube video. He has written many articles for magazines and most
recently had cover photos on Alaska magazine in April 2006 and 2008.
His images have appeared in the National Geographic Magazine, Nat Geo
online, London Times, Outside magazine, Outdoor life, Field and Stream,
Florida Sportsmen, Northwest Fly fishing and in many national and
international commercials. He currently has 150,000 still images in
stock, many hours of film and HD footage and a large stock of original
soundtrack music. He lives with his wife Mary in Ocala, Florida.