Bio


Born in Toronto, Canada, Mark Pariselli graduated magna cum laude from York University with a BFA in Film Production. His debut short film After (2009) screened at over 40 international film festivals including Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival where Pariselli received an Honourable Mention for the “Best Up-and-Coming Toronto Film or Video Maker” (2009). After was shortlisted for the Iris Prize (2009) and won the award for the “Best Short Film” at the 2011 Sicilia Queer Film Festival. Pariselli’s other titles with the CFMDC include Frozen Roads, Kiss, Severed and Pigeon Hole.  Retrospective programs of his short films have been presented in Toronto, Sicily, New York City and Montreal. He has served on the juries of the Sicilia Queer Film Festival, ImageOut: The Rochester LGBT Film & Video Festival and Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival.  Pariselli is currently developing his first feature.  

http://markpariselli.com/

Works

Frozen Roads

  • 2015
  • Mark Pariselli

Balthazar has been friends with siblings Christian and Lyla since childhood. As the trio struggles with coming-of-age in a rural, conservative Canadian town, they must confront escalating desires for one another that threaten to destroy their delicate bond.

Frozen Roads

Kiss

  • 2015
  • Mark Pariselli

An experimental reinterpretation of Andy Warhol's 1963 silent short film of the same name, “Kiss” recontextualizes his protest against the Hays Code's time restriction of onscreen kissing as an impassioned indictment of laws that prohibit and punish homosexuality in certain countries.

Kiss

Pigeon Hole

  • 2015
  • Mark Pariselli

Pigeon Hole comically expresses the filmmaker’s desire to set fire to the restrictive and reductive labels gays use to categorize one another and themselves, especailly via modern methods of hooking up such as online websites and apps.

Pigeon Hole