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Mark Christopher wrote and directed Miramax's 54, set at New York's Studio 54 and starring Ryan Phillippe, Mike Myers, and Salma Hayek. His IFC film Pizza won a 2006 Independent Spirit Award, and his award-winning short films have screened at all major international film festivals, with Alkali, Iowa being short-listed for the Academy Award. His first television series, Real Life: The Musical, premiered in 2012 on OWN, and he is currently creating a new scripted series, The Echo Parkers. Christopher is an adjunct professor in the Carnegie Mellon M.B.A. film program in Los Angeles, where he also volunteers for Inner City Filmmakers and continues his work as a writer, director, and producer. He received an M.F.A. in film from Columbia's School of the Arts in 1995.