Mark Rosenberg

Mark Rosenberg, director of the upcoming film, AD INEXPLORATA, has been selected as the winner of the 2014 Sundance Institute/NHK Award. Created in 1996 to celebrate 100 years of cinema, the annual award recognizes and supports a visionary filmmaker on his or her next film. Films previously supported by this award include BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD, by Benh Zeitlin, and MAY IN THE SUMMER, by Cherien Dabis, which had its world premiere at last year’s Sundance Film Festival.

Rosenberg is a filmmaker and the Founder and Artistic Director of Rooftop Films, a New York-based non-profit organization. He has produced and directed numerous short films and recently co-produced and co-directed Orbit(Film), an omnibus movie about our solar system. He is also developing a screenplay about a man who suddenly realizes he has the power of telekinesis. He has participated in the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program June Screenwriters Lab and Creative Producing Lab and is the recipient of the Institute’s Creative Producing and Indian Paintbrush grants.

AD INEXPLORATA is a multi-media fictional story about Captain William D. Stanaforth, an astronaut alone on a one-way mission toward the unknown. Mark Strong is attached to star in the lead role.