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Cinematographer Mark Forman is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts with a BFA and MFA in Film. In 1984, Mark won an award for cinematography for the student film "Party Games". In 1988, he produced "Bicycles on Snow", which aired on Discovery Channel. In 1994, that film won an award for the best film at teh Interbike Film Festival. In 1991, he developed and patented the Forman Camera Bicycle, a device for action cinematography. Forrest Whitaker used the bikes to open his HBO film, "Strapped" (1993). The Forman Bikes were also used for Sony/Interfilm's, "Ride for your Life" (1993) with Adam West. Forman did a ride simlulator film for Coca Cola's Olympic City in Atalanta in 1996.

Mark began to research 16:9 widescreen HD cinema in 1998. At that time purchased the first privately owed 16:9 DVCAM from Sony. With that camera he photographed a DVCAM demo that Sony used at NAB in 1999 and also shot a project for the National Science Foundation.

In 1999 Mark realized that Video really had the potential to become Cinema especially with the introduction of HD. He then decided to do something many cinematographers dream of. "I would build a screening facility out of the need to see these images in the best possible viewing conditions". Mark Forman opened the Forman HD screening room in 2000. Since that time the room has screened for cinematographers including Allen Daviau ASC, Ellen Kuras ASC, Sean Fairburn SOC and , the director Robert Altman, as well as many others. The Forman Screening room prescreened two Sundance Film Festival winners "Personal Velocity" and "Frozen River".

Mark Forman also has done aerial cinematography for "Honor Squadrons International" in 2001, and has been involved with a documentary in progress on the World War 2 Group the Air Apaches.

He is also is an accomplished still photographer with publication of his images in Digital Cinema Magazine Miilimeter Magazine Digital Content Producer, American Cinematographer, The Seashore Trolley Museum, The Yankee Air Museum, EAA Warbirds, Videography, Film and Digital Times, SMPTE Journaland AirVenture Today. Mark Forman is a member SMPTE, SOC, and a Charter Member of The Digital Cinema Society.

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