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	In The Wake of Illusion is a turbulent romantic drama spanning three continents set against the fall of Communist Russia and the political uprising in Georgia, about the passionate love between a handsome young Turkish immigrant and his New York wife, whose American dream turns into her nightmare when he is forced to choose where to place his family allegiances. Director: Bettina Marks Screenplay:Bettina Marks Producer: TBD in development
	Sync A successful young creative director at a prominent ad agency in New York City finds her life taking a turn for the surreal when a distressed sister's pain infiltrates her subconscious causing her to 'lose track of time.' Director: Bettina Marks Concept: Howard Cohen Story/Screenplay: Bettina Marks Producer: TBD in development
	The Scream An eerie scream from a woman being raped penetrates the Meat market district while busy New Yorkers question their consciences about taking action. (Inspired by the true story of the Kitty Genovese murder in Queens and Edvard Munch's painting). Director: Bettina Marks Screenplay: Bettina Marks Producer:TBD in development
	Still Life short tells the story of a woman who aspires to be an artist, but is stuck in an unhappy marriage in which she is dependent and living out the role of wife and mother. The film reflects the problems faced by a woman living out a traditional role, who, unable to achieve her goals or express her anger, turns her frustrations inward. In the process, mother and daughters’ roles reverse, creating a painful dynamic of moral support and suffocation. Director: Bettina Marks Screenplay: Bettina Marks Producer: Bettina Marks
	Dialogue short depicts the first meeting of a man and woman at a friend’s party and follows them through to their potential date.Through the use of montage, documentary footage, and 'alienating particles of reality' interposed in the conversation, the film creatively threads together personal,social and political issues clarifying the connections between them. The couples' awkwardness and difficulties at their first meeting serves as a microcosm for communication on a grander scale Director: Bettina Marks Screenplay: Bettina Marks Producer: Josh Harrison

PRESS
	SHORT TAKES: for the Berlin Film Festival Journal - ... Melissa Drier "Relationships --lifelong (mother and daughter), just starting (two people at a party) and falling apart {a couple after a less than eventful year in "Paradise") were given anything but short shrift in three American shorts shown in the Panorama program. Bettina Marks' first film, Still Life, is a daughter's portrait of her mother, an "unrealized" artist who has had a nervous breakdown. Family album visuals are accompanied by a non-stop letter-to-a-friend commentary in which concern, anger, love and despair are all tellingly expressed. Dialogue, Marks' second cinematographic venture, records the awkwardness of attraction. intercut with excerpts from a call-in "I'm having a problem" program, current events clips and all-purpose pop psychology quotes. "The basic premise is that communication is a major problem, as seen on a one to one level, and even as seen in this organization." she commented. Marks only accidentally discovered on the plane from New York to Berlin that her films were scheduled to be screened that night.