Mark Apicella is a five-time Emmy winner and eleven-time nominee. He has won four News and Doc Emmys as a Broadcast TV Editor for "VICE News" (7 nominations) and a Primetime Emmy as Senior Producer/Editor on "Jay Leno’s Garage" for NBC.com (4 nominations). His documentary editing work for USA Today has been honored with an Edward R. Murrow Award. He has worked across TV, features, and digital properties, including directing, producing, and editing branded content distributed on TV and the web for over thirty A-list clients including New Balance, Capital One, Speed Stick, Japan Airlines, National Geographic, Discovery, Tostitos, and KFC. He won 'Best Editing' for the feature film "The Garlock Incident" at the Shockfest Film Festival. His work has been seen by hundreds of millions online and broadcast internationally in over thirty countries.
His first feature screenplay, American Delinquent, ranked in the top 15% in the Nicholl Fellowship, he was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant for Science on Film, and his graduate thesis film Salvation, Texas was named “the gold standard for a student film” (Film Threat). He was a finalist for the Sundance/Sloan Science Grant Fellowship and the SHIFT Creative Fund. He has been awarded multiple writing and filmmaking grants through the Moving Picture Institute (MPI).
Mark earned an MFA in Production from the USC School of Cinematic Arts and a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also an illustrator, painter, designer, and photographer with a minor in Fine Art.
