Greg Marcks (born August 12, 1976) is an American director and
screenwriter of motion pictures who lives in Silver Lake, Los Angeles,
California.Marcks grew up in the town of Chelmsford, Massachusetts and
attended Chelmsford High School. He studied creative writing at
Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He went on to
receive an M.F.A in directing from the Florida State University Film
Conservatory in Tallahassee, Florida, where he wrote and directed
Lector, a short film which won several awards at film festivals
including a Student Academy Award from the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences.Marcks wrote and directed the highly acclaimed indie
film 11:14 starring Hilary Swank, Patrick Swayze, Barbara Hershey,
Rachael Leigh Cook, Ben Foster, and Colin Hanks.His film Echelon
Conspiracy, an action thriller film starring Shane West, Edward Burns,
Martin Sheen, Jonathan Pryce and Ving Rhames was released theatrically
in the U.S. on February 27, 2009. The film, though fiction, deals with
the real-world SIGINT collection program ECHELON, run by the NSA.
However, the movie bombed at the box office.
screenwriter of motion pictures who lives in Silver Lake, Los Angeles,
California.Marcks grew up in the town of Chelmsford, Massachusetts and
attended Chelmsford High School. He studied creative writing at
Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He went on to
receive an M.F.A in directing from the Florida State University Film
Conservatory in Tallahassee, Florida, where he wrote and directed
Lector, a short film which won several awards at film festivals
including a Student Academy Award from the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences.Marcks wrote and directed the highly acclaimed indie
film 11:14 starring Hilary Swank, Patrick Swayze, Barbara Hershey,
Rachael Leigh Cook, Ben Foster, and Colin Hanks.His film Echelon
Conspiracy, an action thriller film starring Shane West, Edward Burns,
Martin Sheen, Jonathan Pryce and Ving Rhames was released theatrically
in the U.S. on February 27, 2009. The film, though fiction, deals with
the real-world SIGINT collection program ECHELON, run by the NSA.
However, the movie bombed at the box office.
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