Mark Savoia - C.V.


Mark Savoia is a composer from Toronto. He focuses on composing for film and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in music from York University.

Taja Coconut Water (Commercial, 2018)
Director: Daniel Sorochkin

Grosse Misconduct (Web Series, 2018)
Director: Mitchell Lazar

Outside (2018)
Director: Mark Pariselli
  • Presented at Now and Then a video-art exhibition developed by the RT Collective in collaboration with the Canadian Lesbian and Gay Archives (CLGA), Myseum of Toronto and the Gladstone Hotel.


Exhumation (2018)
Film
Director: Daniel McIntyre
  • Presented at BFI Flare, British Film Institute, London, March 2018
  • Presented at Inside Out, Toronto, June 2018
  • Presented on Nowness, 2018

Elder (2018)
Director: Daniel McIntyre

This Will Be My Legacy (2017)
Director: Erica Genereux Smith

Helium (2017)
Director: Daniel McIntyre
  • Presented at 10th 8 Fest Small Gauge Film Festival, Toronto, January 2017

I’m Thinking of Ending Things (2017)
Artist: Michele Pearson Clarke
  • Commissioned by the Robert McLaughlin Gallery as part of marking their 50th anniversary in 2017

Alice Alone (2016)
Director: Sean Cammack
  • Presented at Blood in the Snow Festival, Toronto, November 2017

Queer Atlantis (2016)
Director: Daniel McIntyre
  • Commissioned by the Hamburg International Queer Film Festival, 2017

Father and Son (2016)
Director: Mitchell Lazar
  • Presented at Kerry Film Festival, Ireland, October 2017
  • Presented at Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival, Louisiana, January 2018
  • Presented at Filmshortage.com, February, 2018

A Brief History of the Apocalypse (2016)
Director: Erica Genereux Smith
  • Presented at The Bloody Mary Film Festival, Toronto, December 2017
  • Presented at Vancouver International Film Festival, Vancouver, October, 2016
  • Presented at Atlantic International Film Festival, Halivax, September, 2016
  • Presented at Bloody Mary Film Festival, Toronto, December, 2017

Nosegay (2016)
Director: Daniel McIntyre
  • Commissioned for In Your Pocket with RT Collective and Inside Out, Toronto, 2016

Famous Diamonds (2016)
Director: Daniel McIntyre
  • Presented at 45th International Film Festival Rotterdam, January 2016
  • Presented at 30th British Film Institute Flare Film Festival, March 2016
  • Presented at Depth of Field, Jackman Hall at the Art Gallery of Ontario, April 2016
  • Presented at 11th XPOSED International Queer Film Festival, Berlin, May 2016
  • Presented at 26th Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival, June 2016
  • Presented at 4th Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, June 2016
  • Presented at Out East Film Festival, Halifax, June 2016Presented at Rio Gender & Sexuality Film Festival, July 2016
  • Presented at Art on the Big Screens, Mississauga Art Gallery, August 2016
  • Presented at Sziget Festival, Magic Mirror Stage, Budapest, August 2016
  • Presented at 6th Durban Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Durban, South Africa, August 2016
  • Presented at Oslo/Fusion International Film Festival, Oslo, September 2016
  • Presented at 20th Queer Lisboa, International Short Film Competition, September 2016
  • Presented at 13th Queer City Cinema International Film Festival, Regina, September 2016
  • Presented at 31st MIX Copenhagen LGBTIQ Film Festival, October 2016
  • Presented at Lesbisch Schwule Filmtage Hamburg, Germany, October 2016
  • Presented at 19th Antimatter [Media Art], Victoria BC, October 2016
  • Presented at Asterisco International LGBT Film Festival, Buenos Aires, November 2016
  • Presented at Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento, Buenos Aires, November 2016
  • Presented in It’s Queer Up North, Colectivo Toronto at CCM, Buenos Aires, December 2016
  • Presented at Reelout Queer Film and Video Festival, Kingston, January 2017
  • Nomination, Best Short Film / Lili Prize, Famous Diamonds, MIX Copenhagen, October 2016
  • Nomination, Best Short Film, Famous Diamonds, Queer Lisboa 20, 2016
  • Nomination, Best Short Film, Famous Diamonds, Oslo/Fusion International Film Festival 2016
  • Honourable Mention from Jury, Oslo/Fusion International Film Festival, September 2016

Bikini (2015)
Director: Daniel McIntyre
  • Presented at 29th British Film Institute Flare Film Festival, March 2015
  • Presented at 4th Pink Life KuirFest, Ankara, Turkey, January 2015
  • Presented at 31st Hamburg International Short Film Festival, No Budget Competition
  • Presented at 25th Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival
  • Presented at 18th Antimatter [Media Art], Victoria BC, October 2015
  • Presented at Strangelove Queer Film Festival, Antwerp, October 2015
  • Presented at 19th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, October 2015, Fascinations Competition
  • Presented at 28th MIX New York Queer Experimental Film Festival, November 2015
  • Presented at Helsinki International Short Film Festival, 2015

Epilogue (2015)
Director: Daniel McIntyre
  • Presented at 29th British Film Institute Flare Film Festival, March 2015
  • Presented at 4th Pink Life KuirFest, Ankara, Turkey, January 2015
  • Presented at 12th Queer City Cinema International Film Festival, Regina, June 2015
  • Presented in Radiant Bodies, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, June 2015
  • Presented at 19th Queer Lisboa, International Short Film Competition, September 2015

Lion (as complete series: Forever, Water, Sodium Lamp Study, Cowboys and Iodine, Cure The Weight of Snow, Dust) (2014)
Director: Daniel McIntyre
  • Presented at 286h British Film Institute London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, March 2014
  • Presented at Queer Lisboa 18, Queer Art section, September 2014
  • Presented at Cinémathèque Québécoise in Nature/Culture, October 2014
  • Presented at 17th Antimatter [Media Art], Victoria BC, October 2014
  • Presented at 4th Pink Life KuirFest, Ankara, Turkey, January 2015
  • Presented in Radiant Bodies, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, June 2015
  • Presented at Oslo/Fusion International Film Festival, Oslo, September 2015
  • Presented at Imagine Science Film Festival, Museum of the Moving Image, New York, October 2015

Additional screenings of Forever:
  • Selected for Berlinale Film Cloud 2014, Private market for curators, February 2014
  • Presented at Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival, December 2014, International Competition
  • Presented at 2014 LIFT Film Round-Up, Toronto, January 2015
  • Presented in NO HOME, Mothlight Microcinema, Detroit, August 2015

Additional screenings of Cowboys and Iodine:
Director: Daniel McIntyre
  • Presented at MIX Copenhagen, October 2014, Experimental program   

Additional screenings of The Weight of Snow:
Director: Daniel McIntyre
  • Presented at 60th Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, CFMDC Market Screening, May 2014
  • Presented at Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa, BLACK BOX/WHITE CUBE Lecture
  • Presented at 18th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, October 2014, Fascinations Competition

Monster Mash (2014)
Director: Mark Pariselli
  • Presented at Santo Domingo OutFest - Festival Internacional de Cine GLBT, November 2015
  • Presented at Queers in Shorts, U.K., October 2015
  • Presented at MiFo LGBT Film Festival: Fort Lauderdale Edition, October 2015
  • Presented at Out on Film: Atlanta's LGBT Film Festival, October 2015
  • Presented at Outfest Los Angeles LGBT Film Festival, July 2015
  • Presented at Sicilia Queer Film Festival, Italy, May 2015
  • Presented at Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival, May 2015
  • Presented at Schwule Filmwoche Freiburg - Gay Film Festival, Germany, May 2015
  • Presented at La Samain du Cinéma Fantastique, France, October 2014
  • Presented at The Slimebone City Horror Film Festival, October 2014
  • Presented at Seattle LGBT Film Festiva, October 2014
  • Presented at MIX Copenhagen LGBT Film Festival, October 2014
  • Presented at Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival, October 2014
  • Presented at Pride Pictures Karlsruhe, Germany, October 2014
  • Presented at Hamburg International Queer Film Festival, October 2014
  • Presented at Reeling: The Chicago LGBT Film Festival, September 2014
  • Presented at POMADA, Poland, June 2014
  • Presented at BFI Flare: London LGBT Film Festival, March 2014

Kismet (2014)
Director: Sean Cammack
  • Presented at The Toronto After Dark Film Festival, October 2014
  • Presented at Toronto Short Film Festival 2015, March 2014

Happy (2012)
Director: Daniel McIntyre
  • Presented at 27th British Film Institute London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, March 2013, Fragments program
  • Presented at 1st Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, June 2013, Queer Themes program
  • Presented at 23rd Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival, June 2013, Art Therapy program
  • Presented at GAZE International LGBT Film Festival Dublin, August 2013, Men’s Shorts program
  • Presented at QFilm Long Beach LGBTQ Film Festival, Long Beach, September 2013, Queer Shorts program
  • Presented at MIX Copenhagen, October 2013, Experimania program
  • Presented at Q! Film Festival, Jakarta, Indonesia, October 2013, Chubby Stick program
  • Presented at Lesbisch Schwule Filmtage Hamburg, Germany, October 2013
  • Presented at Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, October 2013, Bone Ghosts program
  • Presented at 3rd Pink Life KuirFest, Ankara, Turkey, January 2014
  • Presented at 2013 LIFT Film Round-Up, Toronto, January 2014
  • Presented at AKS Film + Dialogue Festival, Lahore, Pakistan, December 2014
  • Presented in Antimatter Performance and Film Traveling Programme, Mexico and Europe, 2014-2015
  • Presented at Reelout Queer Film and Video Festival, Kingston, January 2015

Some Day My Prince Will Come (2011) 
Director: Daniel McIntyre 
  • Presented at Reelout Queer Film and Video Festival, Kingston, January 2012 
  • Presented at 26th British Film Institute London Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, March 2012, Radical Constitution Program 
  • Presented at Open City Docs fest, London, England, June 2012, Aesthetic Queeries Program 
  • Presented at MIX Copenhagen, October 2012, MIX Proudly Presents Program Presented at MIX New York Queer Experimental Film Festival, Opening Night Program, November 2012 
  • Presented at MIX New York Queer Experimental Film Festival, Wanting, Needing, Waiting program, November 2012 
  • Presented at 2nd Pink Life KuirFest, Ankara, Turkey, January 2013 
  • Projected at the GLAAD Art Auction, November 2013 
  • Presented at AKS Film + Dialogue Festival, Lahore, Pakistan, December 2014