Award-Winning Actor
FILMMAKER
MARS is Co-Founder of the production company Besties Make Movies (BMM), which brings stories of characters living in the gray area to the screen. They have written and produced several award-winning projects under the BMM banner and independently. They are obsessed with bringing together vibrant cast and crews that share the core values of transparency, fun and respect.
DEVELOPMENT
Friends For Life
A short film, co-written by Heather Barette and MARS about two friends stricken down by a mysterious illness. The only way to survive is to tell the truth. Will they be able to unlearn years of contrary messaging in time?
Zasha
This feature-length horror, co-written by MARS and Jeffrey Weber, is set in a pandemic-ravaged world where the divide between classes has broadened, and Zasha, a desperately unemployed chef lands a job far too good to be true.
Bye Bye Blackbird
Written by Aileen Kyoko, Bye Bye Blackbird follows Yuki, a Japanese American woman who must navigate the changing social dynamics from a friendship she once relied on and face a haunting new reality, as Pearl Harbor hits.
STREAMING
2 WEEKS (watch)
As Tanya wakes up to the realization that she does not experience sexual attraction the way the majority of the world does, sexualization is thrown at her in everything she does.
APPETITE (watch)
Jack, an aging hedge fund CEO, hesitantly acquiesces when Ruby, his wife of 25 years, suggests they check out an open love party. Thrust into a new world, he is surprised to uncover the intimacy he actually desires.
JONES (watch)
Aware that her drinking has become destructive, Jones takes a go at living the sober life.