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Director / Writer

Film — Commercial — Music Video
Mark Potoka
About

HELLLLLOOOO!

My first summer job was drawing caricatures at a theme park. The job is making fun of strangers’ faces to their faces and then handing it to them. One day I gave a grown man a very long neck, and he threatened my life. I was fifteen. After that I felt a deep devotion to making art and not taking things too seriously. I started making short films, designing things, animating things. Eventually I found a love for writing, and that turned into directing, which on some level is basically my first job: making fun of people, but from a safer distance. I never really planned any of this, and I don’t think I’ll get back to the other stuff, but you never know. If you want a caricature, I’ll do my best. It’s been a while.

I'm repped by CAVIAR Films in the United States
and Denim Productions in Canada.

I direct commercials as part of a duo called MAMA — just the first two letters of our first names pushed together. We met as creatives at Wieden + Kennedy. Now we try to make people laugh with the work we make.

Let's make
the funny.

mpotoka@gmail.com
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