Mark Yuhasz

Mark Yuhasz is the founding member of Alfonso Films and Big Shepherd Entertainment. While studying film at Brock University in his native St. Catharines, Ontario, he discovered a passion for film. Mark produced and directed several of the monthly university television shows broadcast on the local cable networks. For his thesis, he wrote, produced and directed the documentary, "Where are they Now" which was selected for broadcast on Channel 10 and used as a marketing device to recruit prospective filmmakers to the university. His passion and career was launched. Upon receiving his degree, Mark began working as an actor. He appeared on numerous commercials, network shows and theater productions and independent films. He studied at the world-renowned "Second City Improv" school at the Old Fire House in Toronto. After touring with the company, he landed in New York where for the next three years he began studying the Meisner technique with "William Esper" at his studio. As a new Esper graduate, Mark landed leading roles on six different independent films, including, Hacks, VLK, Next Year In Jerusalem and Drunk Tank. While working as an actor Yuhasz returned to his first passion writing and directing. He directed "off-Broadway" productions of Michael Weller's "At Home", and Edward Allen Baker's "Face Divided". In the final adjustment to a growing career Yuhasz moved into Film Production Management. He has successfully produced and managed a number of feature films, commercials, high budget short films, including working with Wasserman on the snowboarding action/drama Switch and true story baseball film The Final Season starring Sean Astin, Powers Boothe, Rachael Leigh Cook and Tom Arnold. In 2007, he recently produced the award winning Canadian Arts Council funded short film The Untitled Puppet Project, and the independent feature length films A Life Less Gone and FBI.