Mark Stouffer

Writer, producer, director MARK STOUFFER is the winner of 75 international awards, including 2 Emmy Awards, 9 Emmy Award Nominations and a Directors Guild of America, Best Director Nomination. Mark’s production background began at age 18 in partnership with older brother Marty and younger brother Marshall. With minimal gear and funding, the Stouffer brothers hit the road, producing Endangered Species of North America, an award-winning film that earned its own pavilion at World Expo Spokane where it was viewed by millions. In 1997, the Stouffer brothers’ high adventures were chronicled in the Warner Brothers $20 million-dollar motion picture created and produced by Mark Stouffer entitled Wild America, starring Jonathan Taylor-Thomas. The movie told the true-life story of the Stouffer brothers as ambitious teen filmmakers. Mark’s ABC and NBC Network Specials in that early era include The Predators, hosted by Robert Redford, The Man Who Loved Bears, hosted by Henry Fonda, and 132 episodes of the award-winning TV series Wild America, hosted by Marty Stouffer.

After receiving a Masters Degree in Cinematography from Brooks Institute, Mark moved into mainstream entertainment, forming a partnership with the most popular recording artist of the era, John Denver. With Mark writing, producing and directing, and John Denver performing, the successful duo produced many of John Denver’s highest rated Specials including John Denver’s Rocky Mountain Reunion, John Denver’s The Higher We Fly, and John Denver’s Music in the Mountains with guest stars Steve Martin, Itzhak Perlman, Beverly Sills and Olivia Newton-John.

Mark’s first move into feature motion pictures was writing, producing and directing Man Outside in 1985 starring Robert Logan and Kathleen Quinlan. Originally distributed by U.K.’s Virgin Group, MGM and Samuel Goldwyn Company, Man Outside played extensively on HBO and was an Official Selection of the Florence Film Festival.

In a move displaying savvy marketing skills in partnership with King World Productions, Mark inspired the formation of King World Direct, earning $57 million in direct-response sales of home-videos he produced and directed.

In the 1990s, Mark undertook a decade of collaboration with National Geographic Television, writing, producing and directing many of Nat Geo’s highest rated Specials including – Braving Alaska hosted by Martin Sheen – Survivors of the Skeleton Coast hosted by Peter Coyote – Tigers of the Snow, Nominated for 5 Prime Time Emmy Awards, winning one – Pursuit of the Giant Bluefin – Search for the Submarine I-52, and Secrets of the Wild Panda, winning Mark a Prime Time Emmy Award for Directing.

Mark’s recent projects include the high adventure, Apollo F-1 Expedition in collaboration with Amazon ceo, Jeff Bezos – the sci-fi feature, Creature of Darkness starring Devon Sawa and Matthew Lawrence – the comedy feature, Dog Gone starring French Stewart and Kevin Farley, released by Universal Studios – and the family feature, Midnight Stallion starring Kris Kristofferson, released by Gaiam-Vivendi. Mark’s projects in production include the crime series Women Erased, and projects in development include the reality series, Qavvik Man and a network crime series hosted by William Shatner.

Mark has appeared in four interviews for NBC’s Today Show and been featured in articles for Forbes, Time, Newsweek, People, USA Today and numerous other publications.