Guests

Robert Burnett - Media Guest Of Honor

Mark Bode - Artist Guest of Honor

Robert Meyer Burnett earned his first screen credit as the art department
assistant on New Line Cinema's 1990 release "Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw
Massacre III," before moving on to a management trainee position in the
Warner Brothers feature production department. There, he participated in the
production of such notable films as "Nothing But Trouble," "The Rookie,"
"The Bonfire of the Vanities" and "Free Willy." From there, he moved on to
short stints as a story analyst for Silver Pictures, CAA, William Morris and
Pierre David's The Image Organization before settling on a Creative
Executive position with director Robin Armstrong's ("Pastime") Open Road
Productions. After a year, fed up with story development, the most useless
position in Hollywood, Burnett moved back into production, working as
assistant makeup-effects coordinator for Tony Gardner's Alterian Studios on
"Cast a Deadly Spell," "Sleepwalkers," "Super Mario Brothers," "Army of
Darkness" and the "Swamp Thing" television series. From there, he joined
Full Moon Entertainment as a staff editor and segment producer, later
earning his first feature editorial assignment, the complete recut of Albert
Pyun's "Arcade," nominated for Best Independent Direct to Video release of
1993 by the VSDA. Moving off on his own, Burnett directed a number of music
videos and shorts, including the award winning short "The Sacred Fire." He
also edited segments of the CableACE award-winning "Jody Horowitz Presents"
for Showtime. He's edited over 10 feature films, including James Boyd's "The
New Gods," which played as part of Slamdance's 1998 "Cannes You Dig it?"
program at the Cannes Film Festival. After working as a freelance Star Trek
consultant for Viacom Interactive, Burnett went on to edit the multi-media
film displays for Landmark Entertainment and Paramount Parks' $80 million
themed attraction, "Star Trek: The Experience," which opened in January of
1998 at the Las Vegas Hilton. Additionally during this time, he was
Critic-At-Large for Larry Flynt's non-pornographic Sci-Fi Universe Magazine,
as well as appearing frequently as an on-air guest commentator on the Sci-Fi
Channel series, "SF Vortex," hosted by "Blind Date's" Roger Lodge, formerly
the "Politically Incorrect" of the Sci-Fi world. Burnett marked his feature
writing/directing debut with Regent Entertainment's multiple-award winning
1999 theatrical release "Free Enterprise," which debuted as a special
selection in Spain's renowned Sitges fantasy film festival. Back in the
states, the feature took Best Film and the WGA-sponsored Best New Writer
honors from the 1998 AFI Film Festival. Burnett then went on to
associate-produce Mindfire Entertainment's "The Specials," a Fall 2000
release also from Regent Entertainment. Burnett finished off the year as the
editor of "Dean Quixote," the latest feature from "Swingers" producer Victor
Simpkins. In 2000, he worked for NBC, writing, editing, producing and
directing over 100 promos for the Summer Olympics and the 2000/2001
Primetime Season. Later in the year, Burnett joined DVD content providers
Kurtti-Pellerin, producing documentary materials for special edition DVDs.
While there, he worked on some of the biggest-selling home video titles in
history, including Disney's "The Fantasia Anthology" and "Snow White" and
New Line's Extended Editions of both "Fellowship of the Ring" and "The Two
Towers," generally considered the two best DVD special editions ever
produced. Also at Kurtti-Pellerin, he directed and edited the feature-length
"The Making of Tron," for that film's 20th anniversary release. The piece
was later nominated as one of 2002's best documentaries by the DVD Exclusive
Academy. In 2002, Burnett founded his own production company, Ludovico
Technique, named after the brainwashing method depicted in Stanley Kubrick's
classic 1971 film, "A Clockwork Orange." The company began by teaming up
with MGM and director Bryan Singer to create a special edition DVD of his
Oscar-winning "The Usual Suspects," later among the first winners of the
Cannes Film Festival's permanent DVD collection. 2003 marked his return to
filmmaking, developing the screenplay for MGM's "Agent Cody Banks" with
screenwriters Ashley Miller and Zack Stentz. He went on to Co-Produce the
feature. Also in 2003, Ludovico Technique produced the 20th anniversary
"Valley Girl" DVD for MGM, awarded Roger Ebert's coveted "pick of the week"
during the first days of August. Burnett then re-teamed with Bryan Singer to
create special editions for "X-MEN 1.5" and "X2" for Fox Home Video. "X2"
went on to be nominated as Best DVD Special Edition of the Year by the DVD
Exclusives Academy. March 2004 sees the release of "Agent Cody Banks 2:
Destination London," which he also serves as Co-Producer. Ludovico Technique
is also hard at work creating the DVD Special Edition for Disney's "The
Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe," a hundred-million dollar film lensing in
London, New Zealand and Prague, currently slated for release in Christmas,
2005. Most recently, Burnett finished the screen adaptation of Mark
Lindquist's Seattle-set novel, "Never Mind Nirvana," which he hopes to
direct sometime in the near future. - [bio courtesy of IMDb.com]

Mark Bode was born in Utica, New York. He is the son of the legendary cartoonist Vaughn Bode. Mark is best known for his work on COBALT 60 and as the creator of the hit comic Miami Mice. Bode attended The Art School in Oakland, California. His first professional job was for Heavy Metal Magazine when he was asked to color his father's black and white strip Zooks, the First Lizard in Orbit when he was fifteen. He was a fine arts major at The School of Visual Arts in New York City and studied animation and etching at San Francisco State University. His publications include GYRO COMICS, TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES and COBALT 60, the graphic novel. Mark's work has also appeared in HEAVY METAL, EPIC MAGAZINE, PENTHOUSE HOT TALK, HUSTLER COMICS and GAUNTLET MAGAZINE. Mark's work was exhibited in "Picturing the Modern Amazon" at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City. He is featured in the latest comic book from GWAR, and is currently working on a line of clothes for ECKO clothing, and recently revived Cheech Wizard, his father's most popular character in THE LIZARD OF OZ by FANTAGRAPHICS. Mark is also working as a tattoo artist doing custom Bode tats. In his spare time, of which there isn't much, Mark occasionally performs the Bode cartoon concert, teaches art, plays New Orleans style piano and zydeco accordian.