Born in 1971, Mark Ostrowski began his career as a writer and photographer. He made his first foray into cinema as the writer, photographer and producer of the autobiographical short film “Festuki” (2011), which won the Dia D’Asturies Award for Best Short Film at the Gijon International Film Festival and was voted among Spain’s best 99 short films of that year by Fotogramas magazine. Since then, he has gone on to direct “Évora,” the autobiographical documentary “Home Movie,” which won Best Expat Feature Film at the 1st Korea Expat and Indie Film Festival, and the multi-award-winning avant-garde documentary “Sixty Spanish Cigarettes.”