TWO-BIT CIRCUS

BRANDED ENTERTAINMENT

DIRECTED BY MARK APICELLA

Mark Apicella is an Emmy winner and five-time nominee for Producing and Editing Jay Leno’s Garage for NBC.com, where he served as Producer and Editor for nearly six years, two-hundred cars, and over four hundred episodes. He then moved into the commercial world: directing, producing, and editing branded content distributed on TV and the web for numerous clients including New Balance, Capital One, Speed Stick, National Geographic, Discovery, Tostitos, and KFC. His work has been seen by millions online and broadcast internationally in over thirty countries. He was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant for Science on Film, and his graduate thesis film Salvation, Texas was named “the gold standard for a student film” (Film Threat). Mark earned an MFA in Production from the USC School of Cinematic Arts and a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.