Mars Roberge
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Mars Roberge is a Canadian-American dual-citizen filmmaker, born in Scarborough (borough of Toronto) in 1972.
Life and career[edit]
In 1995, After graduating a degrre from New york university in film produtions, Roberge was working in the music video boom-from being an editor at Black Walk Productions to being the original First Assistant Director for Jessy Terrero. During the 90s Roberge worked in a few fields of the film industry from commercials to features. He was the assisting art director of Kenny Baird, and also worked as a grip permittee for I.A.T.S.E. and even worked at cleaning up exploding model buildings at John Gajdecki's GVFX.
In 2011 Roberge moved to Los Angeles and directed two more feature films under his film banner, World Domination Pictures: the punk comedy Scumbag,[1] which had a world premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2017.[2] “Scumbag,” won the Best Ensemble Narrative Feature at Queens World Film Festival and was nominated for Best Director Narrative Feature.[3] Film Threat calls it "The Office unhinged, mixed with Mulholland Drive, mixed with Spinal Tap, plus some inexplicable surveillance footage".[4]
His film Mister Sister was premiered as the official closing night film for Dances With Films in 2021. Mister Sister won Best NYC Film in 2021 at the Winter Film Awards International Film Festival where it was also the closing night film.[5]
Filmography[edit]
- Scumbag (2017)
- The Little House That Could (2013)
- Mister Sister (2021)
- Stars (2023)
- Rufus (2025)
References[edit]
- ^ Wild, Stephi. "Sex, Drugs, And Telemarketing– A Look At Mars Roberge's SCUMBAG". broadwayworld. Archived from the original on 28 September 2018. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
- ^ Jason, Dj. "Die J! Mars is bringing his latest film,Scumbag to Queens for the North American premiere". absolution. Archived from the original on 2023-11-29. Retrieved 9 February 2017.
- ^ Hickey Jr., Patrick. "Review Fix Exclusive: Inside Mars Roberge's 'Scumbag'". Reviewfix. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
- ^ Theo Schear, Theo. "scumbag". Retrieved 4 May 2018.
- ^ Winterfilmawards (4 October 2021). "WFA 2021 Nominees & Winners". Winterfilmawards. Winterfilmawards. Retrieved 4 October 2021.
External links[edit]
- Mars Roberge at IMDb
- Guy Shankland , Movie Review: Scumbag, originalrock, May 22, 2018 by
- Michael Talbot-Haynes, Stars, filmthreat, July 27, 2023
- Unseen Films, Mister Sister (2021) Winter Film Awards 2021 September 29, 2021
- Matt Grobar, L.A.’s Dances With Films Unveils Lineup, Sets Paul Greengrass & Michael London As Speakers For Inaugural First Films Series, Deadline August 24, 2021
- Steven Herrera, Indoor Theatres and Outdoor Screenings Offer a Wide Range of Summer Movie, hollywoodpartnership, August 18, 2021
- dangerousminds, ‘scumbag’: a movie for anyone who has ever hated their job & would do anything not to be there 31 January 2017
- Janet E Hammer, Keeping Up with, Making the movie "Scumbag", punkglobe.
- zeitgeistworld, MustSee: Cult Film “SCUMBAG” (dir. Mars Roberge) US Premiere on Digital Platforms! 23 April 2018.